Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Monday, December 16, 2024

DIE-OFF

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by Pepper Trail Ocean Heat Wiped Out Half These Seabirds Around Alaska: About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of e...
Monday, March 13, 2023

WILLOW PROJECT

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by Richard L. Matta Al Gore has warned it would be “recklessly irresponsible” to allow an enormous,  controversial oil drilling project  to ...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021

SPOTTED FROM SPACE

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by Martin Elster In recent satellite imagery captured by Planet , which operates the world's largest pack of Earth-observing satellites,...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

WILLOW WEEP FOR ME

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by Joanne Kennedy Frazer Caribou calves in the Utukok uplands in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Photo Credit: Patrick Endres/ Des...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

WHEN IS THE CARIBOU CALVING SEASON?

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by Xander Balwit As the Trump administration edges closer to opening up oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refug...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

PEBBLE MINE / SOCKEYE SPEAKS

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by Pepper Trail Spawning Sockeye Salmon, Lake, a photograph by Nick Hall at fineartamerica . A male sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)...
Monday, April 22, 2019

SAVE THE WALRUS

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by George Salamon The walrus deaths shown in “Our Planet” are becoming increasingly common as the sea ice they depend on melts away fas...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

THE FOGGIEST IDEA

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by Tricia Knoll Caribou Silhouette by Peter Mather . Caribou bull  silhouetted in fog along the coastal plain of Alaska's Arc...
Monday, April 20, 2015

WARNING FROM THE NORTH

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by Kit Zak Earth Day is April 22   Even before the shaman’s words, we knew gulls screeched warning water sipping the shore the...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

KEEPING VIGIL

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by Emily Strauss
 Earth Day is April 22 Today I saw a photo of deep-winter Alaska with brown dirt exposed in the sledding track...
Sunday, June 08, 2014

ELEGY FOR THE FRENCHMAN

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by M .F. Nagel     The Butte. Good Friday. The Frenchman is dead. Bow your head. Say a prayer. The Frenchman is dead. Hop...
Monday, September 23, 2013

AMERICAN PORTRAITS: A COLLAGE

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by Howie Good A Bering Sea crab fisherman with a king crab. Photo by Corey Arnold 1 The tail fin of a sockeye salmon caught in a ...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

LITTLE THINGS AND BIG THINGS

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by John Kotula A terrible, terribly damaged boy nearly bleeds to death in a boat, under a tarp, in somebody’s back yard. Yes, he has ...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

HIS NAME

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by Andrea Marcusa Image source: Mansfield News Journal The most pointless thing of all was how he wasn’t allowed to have his name s...