A state environmental air quality study found that downtown Juneau generally has good air quality, and cruise ship emissions didn’t threaten the city’s good standing with the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Anchorage wants to let Alaskans turn smartphones into COVID-19 trackers. State officials aren’t sold yet.
Some two dozen states, from Washington to Wyoming to North Carolina, have already launched exposure notification apps.
LISTEN: Small temperature changes on flanks of volcanoes could signal eruptions years in advance
UAF and NASA scientists found slight increases in radiant heat around volcanoes years before they erupted.
Small eruption detected at Mount Veniaminof on the Alaska Peninsula
Satellite and webcam footage revealed small deposits of ash near the summit, but the ash cloud stayed below 10,000 feet.
Satellite internet promises fast, cheaper service to rural Alaska, but technology remains untested
Residents of Western Alaska villages pay several hundreds of dollars a month for data speeds that max out at 10 Mbps.
With $350 monthly internet bills, Y-K Delta residents face high hurdle for connectivity
Some Y-K Delta residents say that the high cost of internet access is not even the main problem. In some cases, there is no internet regardless of how much people are willing to pay.