Yahoo Finance

To survive extreme competition, Alaska pot businesses race to expand

Nov. 8—In a windowless room within a sprawling Midtown Anchorage warehouse, Evan Levinton admires a tiny glass jar with a smooth beige dollop of a cutting-edge cannabis concentrate called "rosin." ...
Yahoo

Baked Alaska: Climate change's extreme heat is warming the state, and creating national security problems

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA – With extreme heat blanketing the country, chilly Alaska has become baked Alaska – and that is impacting ...
Yahoo

As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...
Pacific Standard

The Wettest Part of Alaska Is Experiencing Extreme Drought. Is Climate Change to Blame?

The wettest part of Alaska is currently experiencing something unusual: extreme drought. Last week, the region, which has been experiencing drought conditions for almost two years, was upgraded by the ...
The Hill

90 degrees in Alaska: Extreme heat is irreversibly altering the last frontier

Alaska just experienced yet another remarkable heat wave, with temperatures in Anchorage soaring to a record-shattering 90 degrees. It was an extreme weather event that made national news. But it was ...