2012年5月11日 · The lack of a term for the black-billed magpie may be because the bird was not in Southwest Alaska until recently. The long-tailed relative of ravens and jays seems to be extending its …

2013年3月21日 · While Taras waded through a winter’s worth of snow to point out the scratchy wing marks of a magpie or similar-size bird, another instructor worked in a white crater 30 feet away, …

2012年6月28日 · Qalerayak is the word for black-billed magpie throughout the entire area in which people speak Yup’ik. * * * Rat Island is no more. After more than 200 years with that name, the small …

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1994年7月21日 · People who know such things have assured me that few tourists read these columns. Good. That makes it possible to discuss here some matters better kept private among Alaskans- …

2026年3月12日 · Despite all that is known about the aurora, predicting when the Northern Lights will appear still is a dicey business.

1992年6月17日 · The experts' horror of ultraviolet light isn't really new. For years they've been warning sunlovers like me that sunshine ages skin--young tanned hides quickly become old leathery ones, so …

2026年3月19日 · Compared to control plants in a test plot near Palmer, tomatoes enclosed in plastic and wire cages produce two to three times as much green and red fruit.

1994年4月7日 · Consider, for example, the gray whales. Often called California grays, particularly by denizens of that smaller state to the southeast of us, our gray whales spend the winter in Mexican …

2015年1月26日 · Scientists launched four NASA sounding rockets in the same half-hour from Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks at just after midnight on the morning of Jan. 26.