Fairbanks Air Earns Unwanted Ranking

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Dec 2, 2018   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Fairbanks’ air quality issues began in 1901, when shallow water grounded a gold rush entrepreneur. That August day, when a hired steamship could take them no farther up the Chena River, E.T. Barnette and his wife found themselves deposited on a sandy shoreline in the middle of Alaska. Gold miners soon found Barnette had sacks […]