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Junar Lim takes photos of Ziah Lim, left, and Arsenia Lim, all of Cavite, the Philippines, at gardens in Town Square in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. Alaska recorded its warmest month ever in July and hot, dry weather has continued in Anchorage and much of the region south of the Alaska Range. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

Alaska records warmest month

by Dan Joling Associated PressAugust 17, 2019

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska has been America’s canary in the coal mine for climate warming, and the yellow bird is swooning.July was Alaska’s warmest month ever, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Sea ice melted. Bering…

A tow truck holds a car that was pulled from on an off-ramp that collapsed during a morning earthquake on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, in Anchorage, Alaska. The driver was not injured attempting to exit Minnesota Drive at International Airport Road. Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday morning in Anchorage, prompting people to run from their offices or seek shelter under office desks, while a tsunami warning had some seeking higher ground. (AP Photo/Mike Dinneen)

Back-to-Back Earthquakes Strike Alaska

by Rachel DOro Associated Press, and Dan Joling Associated PressNovember 30, 2018

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2003, file photo, from left, Clemson's Maggie Slosser, Lakeia Stokes, Julie Talley and Julie Aderhold sit on the bench after Clemson's 61-58 loss to Alasaka-Anchorage in the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout on in Anchorage, Alaska. Shootout fans over the years witnessed the best of college basketball, with Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan State and UCLA winning titles, but the end is near. The 40th Shootout will be the last, a victim of changed rules and competition.(AP Photo/Michael Dinneen, file

An Icy Hoops Tradition Comes to an End

by Dan Joling Associated PressNovember 21, 2017

In this Dec. 14, 2016, photo courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL microbiologist George Bonheyo displays the original sawdust material, left, and how it appears after being chemically modified, right, to be exceptionally oil-attracting and buoyant, qualities that are ideal for cleaning up oil spills in the Arctic during a demonstration of sawdust oil recovery material research at the PNNL in Richland, Wash. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via AP)

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Researchers Try Sawdust to Contain Spilled Oil

by Dan Joling Associated PressDecember 18, 2016

In this Sunday, March 27, 2016, Pavlof Volcano, one of Alaska’s most active volcanoes, erupts, sending a plume of volcanic ash into the air. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says activity continued Monday. Pavlof Volcano is 625 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, the finger of land that sticks out from mainland Alaska toward the Aleutian Islands. (Colt Snapp via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

by Dan Joling Associated PressApril 3, 2016