Anchorage (Alaska)
Millions of Bees Bound for Alaska Are Rerouted and Die in Atlanta
When Sarah McElrea arrived at the Anchorage airport last Friday to pick up the 800 pounds of honeybees she was having shipped from Sacramento, she got the first sense of a disaster in the making: The bees — some five million of them — were in Atlanta, not Anchorage. The 200 crates of bees were […]
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Paola Pivi’s American Moment
Folks out for a stroll on the High Line this week are pulling out their iPhones to photograph a quizzical new sculpture, “You know who I am,” at the end of a rail spur in a valley of buildings at West 16th Street. Measured to the torch, the 16-foot-tall bronze copy of the Statue of […]
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Alaska Town Records 67 Degree Temperature, a December Record
In a holiday season of extreme weather events, this one stands out: a 67-degree Fahrenheit reading in Alaska the day after Christmas. The reading on Sunday, from a tidal station on Kodiak Island, set a statewide temperature record for December, the National Weather Service reported. The temperature at the station, in southern Alaska, reached the […]
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