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With as much as 100 feet of permafrost soils, deep thawing will keep roads rough
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (790+ words) Before being patched with thick black asphalt during recent weeks, the roads across Goldstream Creek’s swampy valley bucked my car like a whitewater raft in the Nenana River canyon. This is not news. I’ve bobbed over these road waves for…...
Opinion: Who should be responsible for keeping water in streams?
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (504+ words) A salmon stream without enough water is no longer a salmon stream. A salmon stream without enough flow to move woody debris and scour pools where fish can rest and stay cool isn’t a very good salmon stream. Alaska has…...
Anchorage Daily News Events - DJ Fractal Theory: Road to Electric Sands ft. Pyke
1+ mon, 14+ hour ago (50+ words) DJ Fractal Theory: Road to Electric Sands ft. Pyke Anchorage Daily News Anagrams with a literal twist. Getting the last word is always possible, rarely easy. A quick daily flip. Finally someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles. Word…...
Megatsunami in Alaska’s Tracy Arm was the second-highest ever measured
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (847+ words) When a wall of rock collapsed into Southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm last August, it triggered one of the highest-reaching tsunamis ever recorded in the world. The event happened to be in a place heavily visited by cruise ships. A study…...
Opinion: Alaska’s near‑record landslide tsunami sent a wave 1,580 feet up the fjord walls — and left clues for building a warning system
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (792+ words) On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a landslide from the adjacent mountain unexpectedly collapsed into…...
What’s inside a volcano? Scientists obtain first 3D images of Mexico’s Popocatépetl
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (1059+ words) POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico — In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under…...
Thawing permafrost is causing trouble for the Red Dog mine. Solutions could be costly.
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1625+ words) The massive Red Dog mine is grappling with a problem that’s spreading across the Arctic: thawing permafrost. A glimpse of the mine’s challenges emerged in 2020, when its operator said efforts to address thaw-related impacts to wastewater management were costing some…...
The people and technology behind earthquake early warning
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (428+ words) KODIAK ISLAND — Alders, alders, everywhere. “Here’s the last mud pie.” At the alder thicket on Kodiak, Quigley used his rock hammer to pick at a frozen pile of mud clutching a 6-pound seismic sensor, which resembled a marriage between a…...
An extended fall reveals the existence of hair ice in Interior Alaska
9+ mon, 2+ day ago (470+ words) Just when you thought you’d seen everything in the boreal forest, a reader points out white whiskers sprouting from the ground. Keyed into the possibility of seeing them, I scanned the ground during a dog walk later the same day....
Strong earthquake jolts central Philippines, killing at least 6 and collapsing buildings
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (529+ words) MANILA, Philippines — An offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 jolted the central Philippines and collapsed the walls of buildings late Tuesday, killing at least six people, injuring several more and sending residents scrambling out of homes into darkness as the intense shaking…...