Night skies over the weekend erupted with vivid colors and awed people all around the globe as the solar wind from a severe geomagnetic storm produced by our sun entered Earth’s upper atmosphere and created auroral displays. The sun’s activity was closely monitored and the storm’s effects reported multiple times over the weekend by the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON – Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District awarded a construction contract for the Barrow Coastal Erosion Project in Utqiagvik. Brice Civil Constructors Inc. of Anchorage, Alaska, will begin constructing a portion of the structure in Utqiagvik aimed at reducing erosion and the risk of storm damage to about […]
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology and other agencies are responding to a vessel that sank at a pier in Seattle, Tuesday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a report at approximately 7:30 a.m. that the 91-foot crabbing vessel North American had sunk at a pier east of the Ballard […]
Israel’s “sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory” pushed Human Rights Watch co-founder Aryeh Neier to view the assault on Gaza as a genocide. A widely respected humanitarian law expert who has resisted using the term “genocide” for Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza—a word used […]