TESHEKPUK LAKE — Suspended in glass on the oil stove, the coffee leans south, as if the giant lake has a gravitational pull. Though Ben Jones has leveled this cabin before, he sees a useful function in the current slope, caused by thawed permafrost. Any snow blown in during the long winter will drain through […]
At 1:50 pm on Wednesday, in the community of Kivalina, the Village Police Officer there called in to report an assault that had taken place that morning in the village. The VPO there reported that 25-year-old Quunguq Hawley had assaulted another community member with a knife while intoxicated. Troopers dispatched to the village from Kotzebue. […]
Just two hours after Ukrainian forces initiated an operation in eastern Ukraine to drive out insurgents occupying buildings in the region, where two pro-Russian occupiers where killed, Russia’s Defense Minister said that Russia had been “forced to react,” and announced military drills and exercises for their ground troops as well as air force stationed on […]
In the largest shake since 2004, the residents of British Columbia were jolted by a quake measured at a magnitude of 6.6 on Wednesday evening at 8:10 PM their time. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.1 miles just off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia in the Pacific Ocean. That quake was […]