On a February day long ago, a family living in a sod hut near the Arctic Ocean saw blocks of sea ice bulldozing their way onto shore. Winds shoved more ice until the mass towered above them and started dripping water through a ventilation hole. The father urged his family outside just before a slab […]
Satellite data has confirmed that the amount of freshwater released into the Gulf of Alaska from streams and rivers in Alaska and northern Canada is about 1.5 times what the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico each year. That astounding flow of water is from rainfalls that soak Southeast Alaska and the south […]
The body of George Attla, “the Huslia Husler,” made a stop-over in Fairbanks on his way home to Huslia for burial. A service was held at the Chief David Salmon Tribal Hall where hundreds of mourners converged to pay their last respects on Tuesday. The Alaska legend was accompanied to Fairbanks by his friend Victor […]
Like flecks of pepper on chowder, all of the Spectacled Eiders on the planet are now gathered amid sea ice and steaming open leads in the Bering Sea. “It’s a mass of life in this desolate area,” said Matt Sexson, who once rode an icebreaker to see the winter gathering south of St. Lawrence Island. […]