Only a few years ago, even large commercial vessels wouldn’t take on the ice-bound Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific via the Canadian north — but climate change has changed all that.
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Ice jam slowly breaking up near Galena
The ice jam that is causing devastating flooding in the Yukon River community of Galena is slowly starting to break up.
Beware of bear family near Auke Rec
Recent black bear activity in the Auke Bay bypass area near Auke Rec has prompted Fish and Game to warn people to beware of the bear family frequenting that location. Area Management Biologist Ryan Scott says it’s causing problems. “We’ve got a pretty regular family of bears – a female with three cubs – that…
6 Stories To Mark 60 Years Since First Summit Of Everest
On this, the 60th anniversary of the first successful summit of the world’s tallest mountain, there’s plenty of news about Mount Everest. Here are six stories we found interesting:
Galena flooding forces many to evacuate
More than half of Galena’s 400 residents have evacuated as flooding from an ice jam on the Yukon River worsened yesterday.
Pavlof eruption loses steam
There’s still some rumbling beneath the surface, and a few small explosions here and there. But for the most part, Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula has quieted down.