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AÂ pandemic, an election that wonât end, âWonder Woman 1984.â The sting of 2020 just didnât stop.
Never have so many people collectively looked forward to saying out with the old and in with the new. From Kobe Bryantâs death to murder hornets, civil unrest to racial reform, lockdowns to anti-maskers and COVID-19 deniers, the year has been a doozy.Â
If anything, tonight gives us a little hope for the coming year, and that hope will be highlighted by the biggest fireworks display in Interior Alaska.
In offering a safe and socially distanced festive fireworks event, the University of Alaska Fairbanks is firing off the Fairbanks Curling Lions’ 31st annual Sparktacular celebration at 8 p.m. tonight, launching from the university’s West Ridge. The annual fireworks draws crowds lining Geist Road, the Parks Highway and streets near the university as spectators gather to celebrate New Year’s Eve. It will also be streamed online this year on the univer
Credit Courtesy of Rick Thoman
The collision of a warm, wet weather front with a mass of cold air from Siberia could set a new record: the lowest barometric pressure recorded in the North Pacific.
That could mean hurricane-force winds and high seas in the Southwestern Bering Sea. This storm is generating a lot of interest from weather watchers around the world, said climate specialist Rick Thoman of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
He said the storm which is expected to reach Unalaska by Thursday night will be comparable to ex-Typhoon Nuri in 2014, and to another record storm that touched down near Adak in 2015, causing wind damage in Unalaska and the Pribilof Islands.
Board member Albert Fogle says resource development is Alaska’s future.
And that s the way to diversify our economy, a stronger resource development industry will trickle down into the other industries in Alaska.
The idea is that AIDEA would buy the drilling rights to tracts of land offered in the federal government’s upcoming lease sale. And then, at some point, it could partner with companies to do the actual drilling.
It’s a way for the state to lock in the rights to drill on the land in case no one else bids on the leases.
The move is controversial.
A Chickadee’s Midwinter Roosting Place
A black-capped chickadee on a cold Alaska day. Photo by Jim DeWitt
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 the chickadees spend those long nights was a mystery until a biologist tracked them.
Susan Sharbaugh spent many winter nights trying to find out how a creature as light as a handful of paperclips survived temperatures of 40 degrees below zero. Sharbaugh is a biologist and a fan of the black-capped chickadee, one of the most unlikely residents of the north because of the difficulty of keeping a tiny body warm in a cold place.