In May of 2020, local geologists identified a steep, unstable slope that has the potential to become a tsunami-generating landslide in Barry Arm, a glacial fjord 60 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska. With documented cases of tsunami-generating landslides in Alaska including Lituya Bay in 1958 and Taan Fjord in 2015, this new hazard immediately caught the attention of […]
CAMPO, Calif. — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a man yesterday afternoon who had packages of heroin and methamphetamine stashed inside the false floor of a truck bed on Wednesday At around 1:20 p.m., Border Patrol agents assigned to the checkpoint on westbound Interstate 8 observed a tan Ford Ranger approach the checkpoint. Border Patrol […]
Researchers are curious to see if they will come across a “cold pool” during this year’s annual Southeastern Bering Sea Shelf Bottom Trawl Survey given the unusually warm winter and the limited sea ice coverage in 2017/2018. They suspect they might not, and that would be a first. The “cold pool” is a large mass […]