[wds id=”9″]ATIGUN RIVER — Goodbye, red squirrels. On our summer-long hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, this morning my dog Cora and I left the last tangle of boreal forest along America’s highway system. We walked away from a campsite of white spruce and balsam poplar that shielded us during a rain and […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to the scene at mile 254 of the Parks Highway after receiving a call reporting a two-vehicle collision with at least one fatality at 6:22 pm on Saturday evening. When troopers, and the Fire Departments from Tri-Valley and McKinley Village arrived at the scene, they found that 31-year-old Justin Yurong, of […]
The second-largest earthquake on the planet in 1904 happened somewhere in Alaska. It could have been St. Michael, Rampart, Fairbanks, Coldfoot or a place called Sunrise on the Kenai Peninsula. People felt the magnitude 7.3 at each place. If an earthquake happens today, within a few minutes Alaska Earthquake Center researchers post a map […]
A new mapping project has identified regions worldwide that are most susceptible to dramatic permafrost thaw formations, known as thermokarst, and the resulting release of greenhouse gases. University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers David McGuire and Vladimir Romanovsky were part of the project, which was led by University of Alberta researcher David Olefeldt. They found […]