CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new analysis of fire activity in Alaska’s Yukon Flats finds that so many forest fires are occurring there that the area has become a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere. This is worrisome, the researchers say, because arctic and subarctic boreal forests like those of the Yukon Flats contain roughly […]
Alaska State Troopers arrested a Wasilla resident after receiving reports from multiple callers of a vehicle crashing into roadside items with its driver impaired. At 4:35 pm on Saturday, troopers responded to Settlers Bay Sudivision in Wasilla to investigate the calls about the black 2013 Dodge Challenger crashing into trees and garbage cans and running […]
Will Lentz, a reader from Fairbanks, asks a question that flares every fall: why do some aspens turn red? A few scientists from Fort Collins, Colorado, pondered that subject in the late 1970s. Curious about red aspen trees people had noticed for half a century, they studied why these existed amid those with the more […]
The National Transportation Safety Board was notified after an aircraft incident that took place near Meadow Lakes Drive on Sunday afternoon. It was on Sunday afternoon than 58-year-old Edward T. Merren took off from the grassy airstrip. After takeoff, and as he was beginning to gain altitude a strong cross wind hit the areaand pushed […]