Master Gardener Ed Buyarski suggests using a plot of nice, loose, well-drained soil that was not used for potatoes last year.
Environment
Hilcorp announces project to bypass oil terminal by Redoubt volcano
Hilcorp says the project would eliminate the need to store oil at the Drift River Terminal. That terminal has worried environmental groups for years because it sits at the bottom of Mount Redoubt, an active volcano.
Study asks why species bounced back — or didn’t — after Exxon Valdez
In the years that followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill, some wildlife populations bounced back quickly, while others may never recover. Now, nearly three decades later, scientists are starting to understand why.
Ask a Climatologist: April flips the warm switch in Alaska
March was exceptionally cold in Alaska. But in April, almost every part of the state was above normal.
Alaska Sea Grant’s funding secure for now
If the White House’s request had been approved by Congress, several projects in Alaska would have ended as early as this summer.
Scientists see the future in the bellies of fish
As glaciers retreat in Southeast Alaska, scientists are trying to figure out how that will impact the marine environment.
Supreme Court leaves polar bear habitat intact
A California-sized chunk of the Arctic will remain designated as critical polar bear habitat. That’s the effect of a U.S. Supreme Court order Monday declining to hear an appeal from the state of Alaska, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and an oil industry trade group.
Trump order baffles Bering Sea Elders
When President Donald Trump signed an order last week lifting his predecessor’s restrictions on offshore leasing in the Arctic, he also revoked a decree that created the “Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area.”
Seismologists count over 100 aftershocks since morning earthquakes
A seismologist says the biggest aftershock recorded so far was a magnitude 4.7. She says the aftershocks won’t travel as wide an area as the earthquakes that triggered them, but Southeast communities could still feel them.
Early morning Earthquake shakes up Southeast Alaska, Yukon
A major earthquake rocked Southeast Alaska and an area of the Yukon on Monday morning. The magnitude 6.2 shaker hit at 4:30 a.m. and was centered near the Haines Highway about 55 miles northwest of Skagway.