Alaska

Why? Billions of snow crabs disappear from Bering Sea

Photo: A snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) pictured underwater in Canada. There were once billions of snow crabs in the Bering…

1 year ago

The Pebble Mine Threat is More Real Now than Ever

Voice your opposition (again) now, please… On a sunny day last August, I was fishing a Bristol Bay river with…

5 years ago

Seattle, suburbs would lose all water pressure within 24 hours of catastrophic earthquake

Photo: Mami Hara, CEO and general manager of Seattle Public Utilities, stands inside the Beacon Reservoir in August 2017, when…

5 years ago

Eelgrass wasting disease has new enemies: Drones and artificial intelligence

When infected with eelgrass wasting disease, blades of eelgrass develop black and brown splotches ('lesions') that can spread and kill…

6 years ago

Proposed Alaska mine could threaten salmon population

Alaska has both a surging salmon fishing industry and gold mining industry. But a mining company's proposal to build what…

7 years ago