Archives for 2013

Is the National Security Agency collecting cellphone tracking information on millions of Americans?

U.S. drone strikes carried out in Pakistan appear to have little impact on insurgent violence in neighboring Afghanistan, according to a new meta-study published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.

One thing you can say about the diminutive speckled sea louse: it’s always on time.

Declaring that “human influence on the climate system is clear,” a U.N.-assembled panel of scientists reported Friday that “it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.”

Legislation that passed Congress yesterday will allocate $50 million to clean up the 130 oil and gas wells that were drilled and abandoned by the federal government in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska.

Two Juneau School Board members will have no trouble being elected to their seats next Tuesday – they’re both unopposed.