Balto, the Alaskan Husky who would become famous for running the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, was euthanized on March 15th, 1933. The reason was determined to be that his age of 14 required it. Balto was used as the lead dog in Gunnar Kaasen‘s sled team, taking diphtheria antitoxin […]
Thirty below again this morning. OK then. Time to reach for the baseball bat and fine-tune the weather station. Just kidding. But it’s been quite a winter in the Golden Heart of Alaska. We’ve been at it long enough now that numbers are tumbling in from the meteorologists at the National Weather Service office […]
Alaska’s seafloor is not empty space. It is a living habitat that provides shelter, feeding grounds, and structure for the species that sustain our fisheries. Crab depend on bottom habitat for protection and survival. Juvenile rockfish use structures such as cold-water corals and other complex seafloor habitat as refuge. Halibut feed along the seabed. […]
“Bringing this war to an end,” said one former US intelligence analyst, “requires recognizing it can still get much, much worse.” In what has been described as a potential “major escalation” of the Trump administration’s war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly approved a request from US Central Command to move more […]