Tom Moran

Musk claimed no one died as a result of these cuts, a claim that is beyond absurd on its face. We'll never know the exact number, but so far, more than 700,000 have died as a result of the cuts, two-thirds of them children,

One of the newest ideas in Alaska land management dates back millennia. At a recent gathering in Fairbanks, representatives of Indigenous organizations and communities in Alaska and Canada met to collaborate on the development of Indigenous-led stewardship programs in Alaska. Often known as Guardians programs, these initiatives engage Native people to monitor and protect...

Ex-typhoon Halong couldn’t have come at a worse time for residents of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta—or for their freezers. “It’s fall time when the storms usually hit,” explained Katie Basile, Alaska Sea Grant coastal resilience specialist for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. “This is after families have worked all summer and fall to hunt and fish and [...]

What do walrus monitoring, the Tracy Arm tsunami and salmon bycatch have in common? All of them are important topics for audiences in Alaska’s coastal communities. Which is why each has been the focus of a recent presentation at one of Alaska Sea Grant’s three public lecture series: Strait Science Series, the Petersburg Science [...]

Adam Hamawy, a candidate in the 12th Congressional District, provided translation for Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the “Blind Sheikh,” in the 1990s. His critics, he says, are guilty of anti-Muslim bias.

Towns don’t get much more different than Newtok, Alaska, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. But the recently relocated Yup’ik village near the Bering Sea coast and the resort town on the tip of Cape Cod have one critical aspect in common: the relentless advance of erosion. That shared vulnerability was the inspiration behind “Lessons from Newtok,” [...]

Already locked in a tight reelection fight, the Republican congressman disappeared for four months while being treated for depression. Has his absence handed Democrats a potent new weapon?

There will likely never be a reality show called “Deadliest Kelp.” But even if mariculture in Alaska doesn’t have the same dangerous reputation as commercial fishing, it’s still a hazardous line of work. That’s why Alaska Sea Grant is partnering on new safety curricula and training aimed at the state’s burgeoning mariculture industry. “There’s [...]

For the people of Kasaan, small boats are a big deal. That’s why Alaska Sea Grant recently conducted a maintenance, operation and safety workshop in the Prince of Wales Island community focused on the outboard-powered skiffs locals routinely use for subsistence. The event grew from discussions between Gabe Dunham, head of Alaska Sea Grant’s Marine [...]

To you and I, farmed oysters are a delicacy. But for sea otters, oyster farms may not be a big deal. That’s one finding of a team of scientists led by Brenda Konar, a marine researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), and including Alaska Sea Grant-supported UAF graduate student Riley O’Neil. The researchers [...]