Sometimes, as in the cases of the famous Civil War ironclad USS Monitor off North Carolina, or the USS Bugara, a U.S. Navy submarine that received three battle stars for its service in World War II, we know where shipwrecks are.[xyz-ihs snippet=”adsense-body-ad”]For instance, NOAA, Navy and private industry used a remotely operated vehicle, a kind of underwater robot, to locate […]
The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could significantly affect global sea levels. As part of a new $25 million research collaboration, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) announced today that teams of scientists at U.S. institutions will deploy to Antarctica to gather the data […]
The Anchorage Police Department is seeking a suspect in a Friday afternoon stolen vehicle case where the suspect drove off with a vehicle from the Abbott Road Tesoro station with two children in the vehicle. The suspect, described as a tall, thin black male in his 40s, drove away, but soon ditched the vehicle investigators […]
Residents on Hawaii’s Big Island felt more tremors Friday and braced for the possibility of more lava flows from the Kilauea volcano, more than a week after the latest eruption began. More than a dozen fissures have opened in the ground near the volcano, releasing lava that has destroyed at least 26 homes. About 2,000 […]