Alaska News
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Anchorage -
Alaska residents accustomed to subzero temperatures are experiencing a heat wave of sorts that is shattering records, with the thermometer jumping to more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (16.7 Celsius) above normal in some regions.
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Fairbanks -
Mike Dunleavy the governor of the US state of Alaska is intending to introduce legislation that will repeal the two state boards which regulate alcohol and marijuana businesses according to a letter from a commissioner to state employees.
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Fairbanks -
Alaska's North Slope was hit Sunday by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region. The magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck an area 42 miles east of Kavik River Camp and 343 miles northeast of Fairbanks, the state's second-biggest city.
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For well over two decades, scientists have kept track of the changes occurring in the Arctic tundra habitat. Ankle-high grasses and sedges have given way to a sea of woody shrubs, some growing to neck-deep heights as the climate warms.
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By AFP
Toukyo -
A volcanic eruption in the Philippines forces mass evacuations, while another in Japan kills one person. Across the Pacific, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits off Alaska. So what's the link?
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A liquid natural gas deal between China and Alaska was announced Thursday, just one among the $250 billion in U.S.-China deals unveiled this week during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing.
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Scientists mapping the seafloor off the coast of Alaska have identified a segment of the subduction zone they say signals the potential for a major tsunami in an area that normally would be considered benign.
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By AFP
Fairbanks -
When ministers from the eight states of the Arctic and representatives of the region's native peoples met last month in Alaska, evidence of global warming was all around them.
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Anchorage -
Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are saying a toxic algae bloom could have caused the deaths of 44 whales in 2015 in the Gulf Coast of Alaska, but they are not ruling out other possibilities.
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Prudhoe Bay -
The Arctic region hold great allure for global oil companies, despite opposition from green groups and Obama's 2016 ban on drilling in federal Arctic waters. However, over the past year, huge oil reserves have been found on Alaska's North Slope.
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Prudhoe Bay -
Federal regulators are preparing to shut down an oil well on Alaska's North Slope near Deadhorse tonight. The wellhead cracked Friday and sent up a plume of crude oil before it froze and the initial leak stopped. It is still spewing natural gas.
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Anchorage -
Hilcorp Energy is already under investigation for two underwater pipeline leaks in Alaska's Cook Inlet. On Friday, the company confirmed they are now dealing with a third pipeline leak.
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Some GOP lawmakers and mining companies are banking on the EPA's new head, Scott Pruitt reversing an earlier veto by the agency of a controversial mine project in Alaska's Bristol Bay, despite local opposition and the threat to sockeye salmon fisheries.
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The same strain of avian flu virus that led to the deaths of 50 million chickens and turkeys in the U.S. last year has been found in the country for the first time in nearly 14 months, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Bernie Sanders soundly defeated Hillary Clinton in Alaska's Democratic caucuses on Saturday, giving his campaign a much-needed boost as he seeks to disrupt Clinton's path to the party's presidential nomination.
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San Francisco -
Northern California salmon fisherman face severe restrictions on catch this spring after lower-than-expected numbers of the fish have been counted offshore.
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By AFP
Washington -
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Alaska early Sunday, US seismologists said.The US Geological Survey, updating its earlier location for the quake, said it struck at 1030 GMT and was centered about 83 kilometers (51 miles) east of Old Iliamna....
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Ketchikan -
Ketchikan, a historic town built along the seafront on Tongass Narrows, is known as "the salmon capital of the world," but its past evokes an infamous village which in the first half of the 19th Century was known as “the Pacific Coast's wickedest city".
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Juneau -
Alaskan authorities in the capital city are investigating the death of Juneau's recently-elected mayor, while simultaneously deflecting rumors surrounding the mysterious case.
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Sea otters tickle our imaginations. Their charming antics make them the clowns of the sea, and for those of us fortunate enough to live alongside them, they are enchanting. The sight of mother otters cuddling young ones make them even more endearing.
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Haines -
Amid the long tally of books that emerge each year, it's always a surprise to see a little book of just over 150 pages make it to a best seller's list.
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By AFP
London -
Royal Dutch Shell is ending its controversial offshore exploration in Alaska after failing to find sufficient amounts of oil and gas, the energy giant said Monday.
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According to a new report that was published on Tuesday, researchers have unearthed a new species of plant-eating dinosaur.
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By AFP
Anchorage -
US President Barack Obama has warned that climate change is no longer a problem of the future, but rather a challenge for now and one that will define the next century as he made a landmark visit to Alaska.
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By AFP
Juneau -
A sightseeing plane crashed into a granite rock face in southeast Alaska killing all nine people on board, US police said.
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An Alaska wildfire along a main highway between Achorage and Fairbanks grew by a thousand acres on Wednesday. The Sockeye fire, named for a street in Willow where it started on Sunday, has now blackened 12 square miles.
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Two fast-growing Alaska wildfires have already destroyed 45 homes and forced a number of evacuations as well as restricting traffic on a major highway connecting two of the state's largest cities on Tuesday.
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Juneau -
Perhaps unfairly known for dark, cold and bleakness, Alaska has recorded its hottest weather in 91 years, and this is only the start of the summer.
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Ice age camel bones, discovered in the Yukon, are rearranging the camel family tree.
Until their extinction around 13,000, western camels were quite common in western North America.
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Fairbanks -
At least four Fairbanks residents called the Alaska Department of Fish and Game this past week reporting some rather strange sightings. Lamprey eels were falling out of the sky, leaving some people to wonder if this was a new weather phenomenon.
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Alaska Image
Five Floors Of Fury: Dude skis through an abandoned five-story building in Alaska Screengrab / sagalm52
File photo shows a salmon swimming up a stream in Alaska , USFWS/AFP/File
The summit of Mt. Cleveland, Alaska steaming Chad Hults / US Geological Survey geologist[
Arctic Refuge contains the largest area of designated Wilderness within the National Wildlife Refuge System, "where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man." [The Wilderness Act, 1964]. U.S. Department of the Interior
Volksvagen beetle of the unknown traveller from Chile in Vancouver, Canada.
Fairbanks Route for 2015. Alaska Department of Natural Resources
Rachele Lynae Angela R. Talley
Coastal erosion reveals the extent of ice-rich permafrost underlying active layer on the Arctic Coastal Plain in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska. Image was taken on July 1, 2011. Brandt Meixell/U.S. Geological Survey
The village of Shishmaref in N. Alaska, inhabited for 400 years, is facing evacuation due to rising temperatures, which are causing a reduction in sea ice, thawing of permafrost along the coast. NOAA
A picture of the University of Alaska Kachemak Bay Campus which may be involved in the project. Beeblebrox via Wikimedia
"In this house we're tigers", the unknown traveller from Chile in Vancouver, Canada.
Located in the state of Alaska, Denali is the highest peak in the United States. National Park Service
Walrus found dead and decapitated near Cape Lisburne. USFWS
COMBINE: A Boeing 747 jetliner operated by Virgin Atlantic Airways waits on the tarmac at Manchester Ringway International Airport in Manchester, England, in 2005. Dale Coleman/Wikimedia Commons
Crested Auklets, Least Auklets and other seabirds nest at Main Talus, Buldir Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska - Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge YouTube
Battle of Sitka by Louis S Glanzman. D. Curl, Sitka National Historical Park
The Liberty Project will be located 15 miles east of Prudhoe Bay in Foggy Island Bay, Liberty Island will sit about six miles offshore in 19 feet of water. The area is well protected from the moving polar icepack, shielded by a belt of offshore barrier islands and covered by stable “shore-fast” sea ice in winter. The Liberty Project
Many businesses remain open in the midst of record-breaking snowfall. Valdez, Alaska. January 2012. Courtesy of Suzanne Hickman
Firefighters in Alaska are battling two wildfires today. YouTube
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