With his eyes on Alaska weather and climate for many years, Rick Thoman saw a need for a recent update on what is happening within America’s largest state. “Alaska was being hammered with extreme events,” he said. That resulted in the publication of Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0, a product of the Alaska Center for Climate […]
Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his colleagues many things, including an apparent ability […]
Brian Barnes did something outrageous earlier this week. The biologist drove to a movie theater. In the middle of the day. Barnes, 70, had time to catch a matinee in Fairbanks because after 38 years he recently retired from the University Alaska Fairbanks. Before he caught “Blitz” at Goldstream Cinemas in Fairbanks, Barnes filled his […]
The internal combustion engine is less than 100 years old. Same for the technologies we have developed to pull oil and gas from the ground. It’s hard to imagine life without our cars and planes and buildings heated with natural gas and oil. But it really wasn’t that long ago that people had none of […]