Anchorage Daily News

NED ROZELL

Blame trees when noses dribble and eyes sting

With your next breath of spring air, you'll pull dozens of invaders through your nose. These intruders may make your nose drip and your eyes red and watery.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

NED ROZELL

Volcano watchers go high tech

Twenty summers ago, earthquakes rocked the town of King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula. Some people were so worried that the nearby volcano, Mount Dutton, was going to erupt that they caught flights out of town. Others called in the cavalry -- members of the fledgling Alaska Volcano Observatory.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

NED ROZELL

Bad desert air and a glacier that licks a river

Cathy Cahill got a package in the mail last week from a desert on the other side of the world. She didn't know what was inside, but she hoped it was air samples from Baghdad.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

NED ROZELL

Alaska's bird world is changing

The barred owl, once a rarity in Alaska, is now one of the most common owls in Southeast Alaska. The 20-inch owl with a call that sounds like "Who cooks for me? Who cooks for you all!" is a common forest resident east of the Great Plains but has been on the move lately.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

Historic Eielson flight anniversary this month

Carl Ben Eielson made history 80 years ago, in April 1928, with his flight across the top of the world. The 2,200-mile trip from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen, Norway, took 20 hours and 20 minutes.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

Permafrost map begins to take shape

Fifteen days, 15 villages, more than 800 miles traveled by snowmachine, and Kenji Yoshikawa's spring permafrost tour, Phase 1, is complete.

Permafrost researcher rides hard

WHITE MOUNTAIN -- The University of Alaska Fairbanks' Kenji Yoshikawa is making a snowmachine journey from Emmonak, at the mouth of the Yukon, to Kotzebue, about 800 trail miles away.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

NED ROZELL

Alaska still can prevent an invasion by weeds

With only five roads connecting it to the outside world and a small number of airports and seaports, Alaska is more like an island than the peninsula it is.

Reading the North

New books of interest to Alaskans

Astronauts provide perspective on Aurora

In a view form the International Space Station facing north, the green glow of aurora borealis stretches over the Gulf of Alaska. The photograph was taken by a crew member of space shuttle Endeavour, which was scheduled to leave the station this morning. The circular cloud pattern below the lights indicates a low pressure area.

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Permafrost scientist digs deep for clues

STEBBINS -- "Theres no permafrost here, like there was none in Emmonak," Kenji Yoshikawa said, when he was in the village of Kotlik. "Isn't that interesting?"

Monumental concerns for World War II veterans

The Battle of Attu ended 65 years ago, but survivor Bill Jones has a new enemy on the island: a large titanium starburst rising from a hill, a memorial to dead soldiers, most of whom were Japanese.

Return to Attu (11/9/2006)

Sacrifices for Attu worthy of our honor (7/5/2006)

Hallowed ground (6/29/1997)

Searching for a father on Attu (7/16/1993)

NED ROZELL

A mystery of mammoth proportions

A giant meteor may have exploded over Alaska thousands of years ago, shooting out metal fragments like buckshot, some of which embedded in the tusks of woolly mammoths and the horns of bison.

Reading the north

New books of interest to Alaskans

NED ROZELL

Drained lake tells a tale of warming

Not too long ago, a lake sprung a leak in the high country of the Wrangell-St. Elias region.