Blog: The man with the mammoth bones
“It tastes like shoe leather. It’s good with ketchup, too.” That’s how John Reeves, a larger-than-life character in Alaska, described
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Society (USA)
Female whalers break ‘ice ceiling’ in Arctic Alaska
For thousands of years, when Inupiat whaling crews hunted bowhead whales, the harpooners were traditionally men — until this generation, which has
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Eroding Arctic coastline reveals human bones
As Arctic Ocean waves from summer and fall storms eat away at Barrow’s bluffs, they take land from the living — and
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Blog: Reindeer, oil at Energy Summit
Across the vast tundra of northern Eurasia, nomadic indigenous peoples have herded reindeer for thousands of years. From the Sami in
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Ice-Blog: “People power”, Shell and the Arctic
This week’s announcement that Shell is abandoning its controversial Arctic oil exploration for the “foreseeable future” provoked a wide spectrum
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Examining mental health in Arctic Alaska
When Alaska Health and Social Services Commissioner Valerie Davidson parked her car in downtown Anchorage Monday and walked to the swanky
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Airlines’ new hunting trophy rules worry Alaskans
Delta, American and United airlines are changing their policies when it comes to shipping certain hunting trophies from Africa, but that raises larger questions
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Life on the U.S. icebreaker Healy
It’s been two days since the only U.S. ship deployed above the Arctic Circle each summer has left the ice,
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Can traditional Alaska Native foods be sold? A clash of legal, cultural opinions
BETHEL — Berries are ripening, salmon are running and conflicts over the selling of traditional Alaska Native foods are erupting with
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U.S. Coast Guard and scientists on Arctic mission
KODIAK — It’s about 5:45 a.m. on a dewy Tuesday morning, and an enthusiastic climatologist is preparing to board a U.S. Coast Guard flight over
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Descendant dilemma looms for Alaska Native corporations
The Alaska Native corporation for the Nome region will analyze the idea of enrolling descendants while sister corporations keep such
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Shell vessel damaged in Alaska waters uncharted since 1935
Federal hydrographic surveyors announced Monday that a preliminary review of the area where a Shell icebreaker was reportedly gouged found multiple, relatively shallow areas
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Alaska: Fisheries board member cited for violating fishery closure
A member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries was cited by wildlife troopers in the commercial fishing hotbed of Dillingham last week
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Crawling robot patrols Alaska pipeline’s formerly ‘unpiggable’ pipes
In the trans-Alaska pipeline’s early days there was just a pig, a large projectile sliding through pipe with the flow of crude oil,
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Wildfires prompt evacuation alerts in Alaska
Wildfires prompted an evacuation notice for a six-mile stretch of the Elliot Highway in Interior Alaska on Monday evening, while the village
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