Click on images to view high-resolution version. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard Captain of the Port closes portion of Offshore Systems Kenai (OSK) dock in Nikiski, Alaska, Wednesday. All operations on the north face of the pier are suspended until permanent repairs can be made following a partial dock collapse and subsequent discharge […]
Photo: A spawning sockeye salmon.Jason Ching/University of Washington Chemical signatures imprinted on tiny stones that form inside the ears of fish show that two of Alaska’s most productive salmon populations, and the fisheries they support, depend on the entire watershed. Sockeye and Chinook salmon born in the Nushagak River and its network of streams and […]
In a packed university conference room, biologist Randy Brown spoke of chinook, the fatty king of far-north salmon. “It’s more than just a fish, it’s a culture,” Brown said to the Fairbanks crowd, many of them Alaska Natives. Brown is the lead author on a paper in which he documented all the known Yukon River […]
PENTAGON / WASHINGTON—U.S. officials have renewed calls to defeat Islamic State and are taking immediate protective steps against new terrorist attacks, after Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for three deadly explosions in Brussels. U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. and its allies will “do everything we can to protect our homelands” from […]