Alaska's Energy Desk

ConocoPhillips on Thursday announced it netted $115 million in Alaska last quarter — almost double what it earned in the third quarter. But the company is still grappling with a multi-billion-dollar global loss.

As House gears up for oil tax fight again, industry weighs in, asking for stability.

How do researchers monitor Alaska’s most active volcanoes from afar? Technology has gotten to the point where the crew can do most monitoring from anywhere, even from home.

The original wind chill formula was based on experiments conducted on how long it took water to freeze on top of a hut in Antarctic. But the National Weather Service determined that wasn’t the best way to estimate the apparent temperature in windy conditions.

Instead of selling their trees directly, Chugach Alaska Corporation is selling the carbon stored in those trees. There’s a market for this in California, and it recently opened up to Alaskan landowners.

For those who study climate change — or communicate about it — it was not a reassuring first week of the new presidential administration.