A hydrovolcanic eruption from Ukinrek Volcano, off the coast of Alaska. Photo courtesy USGS Vulcanian Eruptions: Like Strombolian eruptions, these eruptions are characterized by many short explosions. Vulcanian eruptive columns are typically larger than Strombolian columns, however; and they are mostly...
A hydrovolcanic eruption from Ukinrek Volcano, off the coast of Alaska. Photo courtesy USGS Vulcanian Eruptions: Like Strombolian eruptions, these eruptions are characterized by many short explosions. Vulcanian eruptive columns are typically larger than Strombolian columns, however; and they are mostly...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
For example, thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, the input of nutrients—tons of pee, skin, dead bodies and...
and Canadian militaries sent jet fighters roaring into the sky when long-range radars detected strategic bombers entering the U.S.’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on a trajectory toward Alaska. Canadian CF-18 Hornets and U.S. F-16 and F-35A fighters intercepted the aircraft: two...
06-4 How Native american Tribes Came to america Historians have different ideas about how Native American tribes came to America.Many of them think that the first people to America came from Asia. They crossed a land bridge, a narrow strip of land that connected Russia and Alaska. Then, ...
Utah (1896) and New Mexico (1912), had to wait on statehood. Balancing returned to the fore in the last round of statehood in 1959, when Alaska and Hawaii joined. Theexpectation at the timewas that Alaska would be a reliably Democratic state while Hawaii would back Republicans. (...
And just as Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house in Alaska in 2008, here in 2024 I could see benny Vasquez rolling her eyes at me in my mind. Everything in this story actually happened — except for the stuff that didn’t....
the National Security Agency leaker, after Gabbard sponsored legislation in Congress to give him a pardon. And at one point, she said she was “offended” by a question from a Republican senator asking whether Russia would “get a pass in either your mind or your heart.” ...
“They’ve had these designs for a long time, and they’ve probably been doing exercises around these engines for 15 years,” he said. “All that work was done, and all [that] was left to do was the ground testing and flight testing with these different designs. It is what has allow...