This Day in Alaskan History-June 12th, 1916
Trump’s ‘I Love the Inflation’ Remark Seen as Latest Display of Contempt for Working Class
“There you have it: President Trump loves that you’re paying higher prices,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. US President Donald Trump’s remarks Wednesday expressing “love” for new inflation figures were seen as yet another callous dismissal of the economic pain facing the nation’s working class as price hikes driven by the Iran war erase wage gains and make it […]
A snapshot in time: Ancient ground squirrel droppings, dating back 700,000 years, reveal rich details about evolutionary history of the Arctic
Hamilton, ON – Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon’s deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large mammals, offering detailed genetic information about an environment that no longer exists. It is among the oldest ancient DNA ever recovered and sequenced. In […]
Deep-sea expedition uncovers dozens of new species
Note: Adapted from a Schmidt Ocean Institute news release. An international team of experts discovered over two dozen new marine species on a recent expedition off the coast of Brazil in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean. The science team, which included University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Russ Hopcroft, used advanced technologies to explore the ocean’s midwater, […]