Powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake shakes Alaska The quake was at a depth of 36.2 miles and occurred north Anchorage It struck at around 10:59pm Sunday and was felt throughout the Alaskan interior No tsunami warning was issued by the National Tsunami Warning Center By Sophie Tanno For Dailymail.com Published: 09:05 BST, 31 May 2021 | Updated: 10:03 … Read more
Now that’s a whopper! Six-year-old boy catches his first fish – and it’s as big as him Drayden Nelson was ice fishing with his family on the Kotzebue Sound in Alaska The six-year-old made his first catch while fishing through a hole in the ice His father Stephen helped Drayden land the giant fish which … Read more
No selfless act! People are more likely to donate money to charity if they think they’re benefitting THEMSELVES, study finds Researchers implemented a ‘statewide natural field experiment’ in Alaska, US They worded postcard adverts for charitable donations in two different ways The one that emphasised selfish benefits was best at getting people to donate By Jonathan Chadwick For … Read more
Alaska‘s melting glaciers may have set the stage for a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in 1958 that triggered a massive avalanche of about 90 million tons of rock down into the narrow inlet of Lituya Bay. A new study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute found ice loss has influenced the timing and location … Read more
Although woolly mammoths have not roamed the Earth for thousands of years, their remains are still being uncovered around the world – and a recent find may be one-of-a-kind. A miner in Alaska stumbled upon a tusk that belonged to a beast some 30,000 years ago, but the elongated tooth’s natural brownish coloring was intertwined … Read more
Netflix’s children film Bigfoot Family is accused of ‘spreading misinformation and peddling lies’ about the oil sector as furious viewers launch ‘tell the truth’ campaign in Canada The film, described as a ‘family comedy’, follows Bigfoot who fights against an Alaska oil company who is planning to bomb a valley so they can remove the … Read more
A U.S. admiral has warned that China aims to invade Taiwan within the next six years ahead of the Biden administration first meeting with the country’s officials in Alaska next week. U.S. Navy Admiral Philip S. Davidson, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, also told the Senate Armed Services Committee of fears among the U.S. … Read more
Children and young adults from minority communities made up a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 cases in 2020, according to a new CDC report that looked at 700,000 cases across 15 states. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander children, Native American/Alaska Native children, and Hispanic/Latino children were most likely to be infected across the full year, according to the … Read more
Spectacular moment avalanche roars down mountain and engulfs road in a giant cloud of powder as experts uses explosives to trigger the controlled snowslide in Alaska Controlled avalanche was conducted in Juneau, Alaska, due to unstable snow Snow raced down the mountain at incredible speed after explosive detonated Cloud of snow engulfed a road before … Read more
The 2021 Iditarod kicked off on Sunday, but like most events amid the pandemic, the multi-day sled dog race across Alaska looks far different than in years gone by, with no spectators, an abbreviated course, and the smallest field of contestants in decades. Forty-six mushers and their teams of huskies dashed off into the Alaska … Read more