For Al Jazeera America: Alaska, known for cold and snow, is on thin ice
Two-thirds of Alaska has below-normal snowpack, or accumulated snow, according to Daniel Fisher, a hydrologist and data collection officer with the Westwide Snow Survey Project.
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For Al Jazeera America: Listen to the Gwich’in
To understand the relationship between the indigenous Gwich’in who live in this village near the edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the massive caribou herd that migrates through their land, you might start in February with a ride on the back of Charlie Swaney’s old snowmobile.
For the Anchorage Press: Getting Sideways
I gave the car tiny amount of gas, trying to get control and back up. The wheels turned, but the car began to slide, sideways, downhill.
For Al Jazeera: Reality bites in Alaska when TV crews clog up the frontier
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska might be one of the last places in America where a person can disappear. Off the grid, hundreds of miles from their nearest neighbor, people here can elude their problems and their exes and even law enforcement.
But, as the locals joke, the reality TV producers will still find them.
For Al Jazeera America: Alaska Muslims raise the roof of state’s first mosque in Anchorage
Six thousand miles from Mecca, Anchorage’s rapidly growing Muslim community worships in a strip mall as the state’s first mosque slowly rises on a South Anchorage lot. (Pictured above: From inside the mosque building, the church next door.)
