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Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 8, 2021   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds

Alaska went big on New Year’s. First, on New Year’s Eve 2020, a superstorm spun its way through the North Pacific Ocean and into the Aleutian Islands. The twirling mass of gases surrounding Earth was more than 5,000 miles wide, its boundaries stretching from northern Japan to middle Alaska. That’s about 10 times the width […]

Oil Companies Can Set Their Own Rates for Royalties From Drilling on Public Lands Thanks to Trump: Report

By Julia Conley | Common Dreams on May 24, 2020   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Oil Companies Can Set Their Own Rates for Royalties From Drilling on Public Lands Thanks to Trump: Report

  “Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands—land that belongs to the American people—and now they’ll pay even less.” In a display of loyalty to what Greenpeace called “the most polluting industry in history,” the Trump administration is allowing dozens of oil and gas companies to set […]

Observers Mystified After Trump Delivers ‘Moronic’ and ‘Unhinged’ Diatribe Against Wind Power

By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams on Dec 23, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Observers Mystified After Trump Delivers ‘Moronic’ and ‘Unhinged’ Diatribe Against Wind Power

  In a speech to the right-wing Turning Points USA conference in Florida on Saturday, President Donald Trump launched into an incoherent diatribe against wind power in which he said in the same breath that he “never understood wind” and has studied windmills “better than anybody,” pointed out for no apparent reason that the earth is “tiny” […]

Wind-Alutiiq Word of the Week-November 10th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Nov 10, 2019   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News  

Wind-Alutiiq Word of the Week-November 10th

AQLLAQ – WIND YAATIINI, AKGUA’AQ, ERNERPAK CALI AQLLANGENGUARTUQ. – THE LAST FEW DAYS HAVE BEEN WINDY. Wind is a persistent environmental feature of Alaska’s gulf coast. Steep mountains funnel sudden gusts down coastal valleys, and winter storms bring blustery weather that generates high seas and cold temperatures. For Kodiak residents, the wind is both a […]

Alaska Air Guardsmen Rescue Pilot near Pish River

By David Bedard/176th Wing Public Affairs on Apr 16, 2019   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural, State  

Alaska Air Guardsmen Rescue Pilot near Pish River

  JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a pilot of a Cessna 185 aircraft April 15 near Pish River in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve after the plane crashed. According to Alaska Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Evan Budd, Alaska […]

Pondering the Power of the Ocean

By Beth Grassi | University of Alaska-Fairbanks on Mar 8, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Pondering the Power of the Ocean

  Yakutat once found quirky fame as a surfing destination for the adventurous. Now, residents are looking into capturing wave energy to provide the town’s power. Jeremy Kasper and Stephanie Jump, with UAF’s Alaska Center for Energy and Power, are investigating the best potential underwater-energy sites. Ocean waves can generate electricity as underwater devices convert […]

Ample Opportunity for Alaska to Join the Rising Tide of Renewable Energy

By Jake Naimark on Aug 8, 2018   Op/Ed and the Editor  

Ample Opportunity for Alaska to Join the Rising Tide of Renewable Energy

Dear Editor, In response to the recently published article entitled “Thawing Permafrost Microbiomes Fuel Climate Change,” it is increasingly evident that a bold and swift transition to renewable energy, and away from fossil fuels, is essential for maintaining a livable planet. Unforeseen variables, such as thawing permafrost carbon sinks, are only accelerating the rate of […]

Researchers Investigate the Correlation between Wind and Wave Height in the Arctic Ocean

By Research Organization of Information and Systems on Jun 12, 2018   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Researchers Investigate the Correlation between Wind and Wave Height in the Arctic Ocean

An international research team led by Takuji Waseda, a professor of the University of Tokyo, Japan, has found an increase in high waves and winds in the ice-free waters of the Arctic Ocean, a potentially dangerous navigational tipping point for the “new and unusual” state of the waters. The research was conducted as part of […]

Four People Killed after Ferry Capsizes off Remote Philippine Island

By VOA on Dec 21, 2017   At Sea, Featured, National/World, World  

Four People Killed after Ferry Capsizes off Remote Philippine Island

— Four people are confirmed dead and 81 others are missing after Thursday’s capsizing of a ferry off a remote island in the Philippines. Philippine coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo says 166 individuals have been rescued by navy and coast guard rescue crews and a flotilla of fishing boats near Polilo island, located about 70 kilometers […]

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