3 天之前 · Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist with over 35 years of professional experience as a reporter, writer & staff editor. This is his news site.

2025年1月22日 · craigmedred. craigmedred.news is committed to Alaska-related news, commentary and entertainment. it is dedicated to the idea that if everyone is thinking alike, someone is not thinking. you can contact the editor directly at craigmedred@gmail.com.

2025年1月26日 · There is, however, more than one way to skin a cat, as it has been said, and there is more than one way to transport energy.. Just ask the Chinese, who these days have a more than 3,000 kilometer long (nearly 1,900 mile), ultrahigh-voltage direct current (HVDC) powerline moving energy from coal-fired power plants, along with an increasing number of wind and solar farms, in Northwest China to ...

2024年11月26日 · Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the "30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.'' So much for the old idea of selling Anchorage as a comfortable, civilized, climate-change refuge on the edge of a vast wilderness ripe for recreational exploration. And…

2025年1月12日 · Posts about News written by craigmedred. Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]

2025年1月12日 · Thank you, Mr. Medred, for this very enlightening bit of information. Like many, I’m wondering what lies ahead for Alaska’s declining wild salmon fisheries, as, short of an Endangered Species declaration, it doesn’t seem likely that anything meaningful will be done to confront the powerful economic interests driving the decline.

2025年1月5日 · Will another warning save lives? The U.S. Surgeon General wants to add "cancer'' to the list of warnings labeled on alcoholic beverages, and someone needs to ask why. To start with, the studies as to the association between alcohol consumption and cancer are unclear. "Light to moderate drinking is associated with minimally increased risk of…

2024年4月19日 · A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland firefighter by training, he moved north from California in 1999. Riding his various bikes at the time kept him in shape for the…

2023年11月26日 · News as propaganda kills trust Sometimes it is hard to tell whether scientists or journalists are most responsible for the pervasive global warming skepticism in the world's largest and most powerful democracy. A Pew Research survey in October found only about a third of U.S. citizens greatly concerned about the future climate, and after…

2024年12月10日 · As Craig’s article points out, the effects of stuffing hatchery pink salmon into the ocean are not just limited to Alaska salmon. A recently published paper in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences made the local Idaho news* where the alternate-year life cycle of hyperabundant pink salmon in the distant waters of the North Pacific can explain the patterns in stunted growth ...