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Another study says warming may be worse than experts think
Published 8:00am Friday, April 8, 2016WASHINGTON — Most computer simulations of climate change are underestimating by at least one degree how warm the world will get this century, a new ... Read more
Sixth annual Yakutat Tern Festival celebrates Aleutian and Arctic Terns
Published 8:00am Friday, April 8, 2016The Sixth Annual Yakutat Tern Festival is June 2–5. The festival is a celebration of the natural and cultural resources of Yakutat. Yakutat hosts one ... Read more
Juneau’s heating revolution
Published 8:02am Wednesday, April 6, 2016juneau’s undergoing a heating revolution. Ground source heat pumps have been making their way into commercial and institutional buildings in Juneau starting with AEL&P’s new ... Read more
My Turn: Bring the ‘Bern’ to the Alaska Legislature
Published 8:02am Sunday, April 3, 2016Last Tuesday, over 8,000 Alaskans took hours out of their day to crowd together in schools and civic centers all across Alaska to caucus for ... Read more
Obama, Xi vow to narrow differences, work on N. Korea
Published 8:02am Friday, April 1, 2016WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged Thursday to cooperate to confront the North Korean nuclear threat while working to narrow ... Read more
Oregon State, Syracuse, Washington ready for 1st Final Four appearance
Published 8:01am Friday, April 1, 2016INDIANAPOLIS — Geno Auriemma marvels at what his colleagues accomplished this season. In six short years, Oregon State coach Scott Rueck took a program that ... Read more
Study: Juneau Ice Field to shrink if warming continues
Published 8:04am Sunday, March 27, 2016ANCHORAGE — A Rhode Island-size ice field in the mountains behind Alaska’s capital could disappear by 2200 if climate-warming trends continue, according to a University ... Read more
Biologists document seabird die-off at national park
Published 8:02am Friday, March 25, 2016ANCHORAGE — A massive die-off of Alaska seabirds has stretched to the beaches of a national park in the southwest corner of the state. Federal ... Read more
My Turn: Obama-Trudeau summit demonstrates a joint focus on the arctic
Published 8:00am Thursday, March 24, 2016Earlier this month, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held their first summit meeting, and resolved that the United States and Canada ... Read more
My Turn: Solution deniers versus solution seekers
Published 8:01am Sunday, March 20, 2016As I noted in a previous column, a poll done by the Alaska Dispatch News (Jan. 28, 2016) showed “an overwhelming proportion of respondents — ... Read more
My Turn: Obama’s Arctic insult
Published 8:03am Friday, March 18, 2016Should President Barack Obama have consulted with Gov. Bill Walker and Alaska’s congressional delegation before establishing an Arctic agreement with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? ... Read more
Beyond record hot, February was ‘astronomical’ and ‘strange’
Published 8:01am Friday, March 18, 2016WASHINGTON — Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing temperatures as “astronomical,” “staggering” and “strange.” They warned that ... Read more
Alaska Science Forum: Broken ice causes the worst spring breakup floods
Published 8:00am Friday, March 18, 2016For half the year, Alaska’s big rivers provide a somewhat flat surface, allowing travel by snowmachine, dog team, ski, bike, snowshoe and foot. For a ... Read more
Letter: Suicide is preventable
Published 8:01am Thursday, March 17, 2016With the recent public suicide in Juneau, the Juneau Suicide Prevention Coalition wants to reassure community members there is hope. There is no denying that ... Read more
US bars Atlantic drilling; Obama builds environmental legacy
Published 8:06am Wednesday, March 16, 2016WASHINGTON — In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Tuesday it will bar oil drilling off America’s Atlantic Coast, a move cheered by environmentalists ... Read more
Obama says GOP leaders to blame for party ‘crackup’
Published 9:01am Friday, March 11, 2016WASHINGTON — Years of Republican hardline politics and divisive rhetoric have spawned Donald Trump and the “crackup” of the GOP, President Barack Obama said Thursday, ... Read more
ACRC awarded $500,000 grant
Published 9:00am Friday, March 11, 2016In February 2016 the Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center was awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and facilitate the Coastal ... Read more
Winter warmer-land: US breaks record for hottest winter
Published 9:07am Wednesday, March 9, 2016WASHINGTON — Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records, thanks to the combination of El Nino and ... Read more
My Turn: The Legislature must act on fiscal change this session
Published 9:02am Tuesday, March 8, 2016Most everyone agrees that now is the time for action by the Legislature to help bridge the fiscal crisis that our state government faces. What ... Read more
Alaska Science Forum: Barrow’s extreme spring of one year ago
Published 9:02am Friday, March 4, 2016For a town of its size (4,300 people), Barrow receives more visits by scientists than any place in America. The northernmost community in the U.S. ... Read more