During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where chickadees spent those… Continue reading
Examples come from many kinds of critters.
“De-extinction” company adopts fossils for Alaska school districts.
Here’s how some diminutive vertebrates do it.
One winter day not long ago, a reporter from the Sacramento Bee called. She had read a story I wrote about life at 40 below… Continue reading
Touch is a mechanical sense, detecting physical stimuli such as pressure, texture, stretch, vibrations and flow. Touch receptors come in a variety of forms —… Continue reading
Climate change in the Arctic and Alaska is substantial; we can see signals it has arrived…”
When you are a young boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, sniffing warm pastries your father has placed in the window of his… Continue reading
It’s a collaboration between local scientists, composers and musicians
There are wonderfully diverse ways of using silk to detect and capture prey.
No signs of imminent eruption
A tree grows in Petersburg.
What do a platypus, salamander and dolphin have in common?
Alaska researchers are working to create insulation that removes carbon from the atmosphere.
Vic Van Ballenberghe had stood amid their knobby legs for many springs and falls in Interior Alaska.
“I can hand a piece of the Yukon River or Mendenhall Glacier to someone thousands of miles away…”
Unlike the giant storm that hit Alaska in mid-September, hurricanes and typhoons both have eyes.
Guttation drops contain not only water but also sugars, proteins, and probably minerals.
You cannot see it, it’s electric.
