15+ hour, 29+ min ago   (734+ words) Somebody messed with Alaska’s weather last month. Before anybody checks the skies for black helicopters, relax. On Aug. 23, a California company called Rainmaker Technology Corporation launched a drone near the head of Kachemak Bay and flew it into clouds cold…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (415+ words) “Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World” By Jennifer de Mooy; University of Minnesota Press, 2026; 200 pages; $19.95 paperback. As de Mooy points out, peatlands have not always been appreciated. In America, they were long considered to be wastelands that…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1065+ words) A California tech company is facing an uproar from local residents and elected officials after launching a drone near the small Alaska fishing town of Homer with a goal fit for a sci-fi novel: to create rain and snow. The…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (643+ words) Anchorage Daily News Opinion: To protect Alaska’s old-growth forests, the Roadless Rule must be kept in place The 2001 National Roadless Rule protected 45 million acres of national forest lands from new road building and logging across the United States. There…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (437+ words) I am Xaawk’w Tláa Yolanda Fulmer, a Tlingit matriarch descended from the people of Glacier Bay. My home village is Hoonah, and I live in Juneau — the heart of the Tongass National Forest. When I was growing up in Ketchikan,…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (825+ words) The Trump administration on Friday moved to exempt oil projects in federal territory on the west side of the North Slope from environmental reviews that have been standard for decades. An industry-initiated proposed rule announced by the U.S. Bureau of Land…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) My friend Pete Leathard has a short fuse when it comes to talk of importing LNG, or liquefied natural gas. Leathard is a veteran manager of oil and gas service companies, now partly retired. Given his experience, when he speaks,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (744+ words) KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescue teams with search dogs continued to search through mud, rocks and debris on Tuesday on the border with Nepal and China for thousands of people still missing following the catastrophic floods that tore through communities across the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (851+ words) KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (511+ words) Forty-nine years after it began transporting crude oil from Prudhoe Bay, the trans-Alaska pipeline system is due for a regulatory renewal that will allow it to keep operating on federal lands into future decades. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has…...