New Zealand has granted the United States permission for a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, to visit the port of Lyttelton later this month. The icebreaker will make the port call on its way to its home port of Seattle after completing a resupply mission supporting the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), which […]
[wds id=”5″] Sperm whales have been a part of American culture ever since Captain Ahab set out aboard the Pequod to find the infamous white whale in Moby Dick. Large, noisy, and often social, sperm whales are a remarkable species found from the equator to the poles. Here are four reasons sperm whales are special: […]
A Chalkyitsik victim and her assaulter were both flown to Fairbanks on Sunday, her for treatment of her injuries, and he for remand, Fairbank-Based Alaska State Troopers reported Monday morning. Troopers received a report form a woman in the village of Chalkyitsik, reporting that she had been a victim of a strangling and assault. Troopers […]
Was there a terrorist attack in Sweden Friday night? No, but U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to suggest there had been, leaving Swedes baffled by just what the new American leader might have meant by an offhand remark. At a campaign rally Saturday in Florida, Trump alluded to past terrorist attacks in Europe linked to […]