Ice that floats on far-north oceans has been dwindling the last few years. Scientists have described the shrinking of this solar reflector — once bigger than Russia and now taking up less space than Australia — as a breakdown of the world’s refrigerator. But a group of researchers have found a sliver of good news […]
DHSS today announced 478 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 477 are residents in: Anchorage (275), Fairbanks (31), Wasilla (24), Bethel Census Area (17), Kenai (16), Eagle River (13), Palmer (13), North Pole (10), Soldotna (10), Bethel (9), Juneau (8), Sterling (6), Utqiaġvik (6), Chugiak (3), Kodiak (3), Seward (3), Sitka (3), Willow (3), […]
SOLOMONS, MD (November 11, 2020)–Arctic researchers Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper have been visiting the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska for nearly 30 years, collecting information about the biological diversity of the watery world under the sea ice to understand how marine ecosystems are responding to environmental changes. This year, a late-season research cruise […]
On Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers announced that the Nome Office of the Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team, the Anchorage Airport Interdiction Task Force, and the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, made another arrest in their continuing investigation into drugs in the Nome area that seized approximately 54.2 grams (2 ounces) of methamphetamine and approximately […]