In total, there are about 80 fully electric vehicles on the roads of Juneau. More than 40 of those were parked at Savikko Park in Douglas on Saturday at an electric vehicle get together.
Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska's Energy Desk - Juneau
As tiny homes take root, where do you park them in Alaska?
A Juneau company is building its first tiny house on wheels to sell commercially and it intends to make more. But the city’s zoning codes haven’t caught up with the tiny house craze.
Most humpback whales removed from Endangered Species List
Three different humpback populations visit Alaska and now they all fall into different categories.
Gone glacier: fashion magazine depicts Mendenhall melt too soon
“I got follows ups about this fact and that fact, but they just missed this one,” said John Neary, the director of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.
One People Canoe Society to paddle for Standing Rock Tribe to protest controversial pipeline
Members of the One People Canoe Society are traveling this week from Alaska to North Dakota to paddle in protest over a controversial pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has asked paddlers from around the country to show support with a float down the Missouri River.
Forest Service gives go ahead for Kuiu Island timber sale
An old growth timber sale recently announced in a Ketchikan newspaper has one conservation group scratching its head. That’s because this type of harvest, near valuable salmon streams, won’t be allowed in the future.
NASA keeps watch of shrinking Arctic ice
“A lot of ice experts, including myself, thought we were headed for a record year minimum,” said Hajo Eicken, a professor at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
As wildfires blaze, Southeast glaciers could be feeling the melt
Scientists are wondering if the carbon released from interior fires is traveling all the way to Juneau — potentially speeding up glacial melt.
Why students and scientists spend summer on ice
The Juneau Icefield Research Program has been around for 70 years. First, exploring the icy expanse. And later, tracking the rate Southeast glaciers are shrinking.
Unlikely allies: U.S. and Russia work together on walrus
Now a new federal database, created with over a century of information, shows where those animals haul out on both sides of the border. And that’s especially important as sea ice disappears and the animals spend more time on land.