Balto, the Alaskan Husky who would become famous for running the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome in 1925, would be euthanized on March 15th, 1933. The reason, it was determined that his age 1t 14 required it. Balto was used as the lead dog in Gunnar Kaasen‘s sled team taking diphtheria antitoxin […]
Washington, DC— A small group of volcanic islands in Alaska’s Aleutian chain could actually be part of a single, previously unrecognized giant volcano in the same category as Yellowstone, according to work from a research team, including Carnegie’s Diana Roman, Lara Wagner, Hélène Le Mével, and Daniel Portner, as well as recently departed postdoc Helen Janiszewski […]
WASHINGTON – Republican U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, clashed in a contentious, chaotic presidential election debate Tuesday night, trying for 90 minutes to convince American voters that the other one was unfit to lead the United States for the next four years. They argued over the world-leading coronavirus death toll of 205,000 in the U.S., […]
The Alaska Volcano Observatory has reported an explosion and a small ash cloud emission from Mount Cleveland on the Aleutian Chain on Friday. The reported ash cloud reached an elevation of 22,000 feet and is drifting to the southeast according to their report. The seismic activity was registered just before 10 pm on Friday evening. The […]