"It's a little bit scary, because the more you learn, the more you realize how variable this is. But also, it doesn’t take much to switch that from no toxicity at all to a really high toxicity event," Steve Kibler, a scientist with NOAA who studies harmful algal blooms around Kodiak, said.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTThis week we hear about the latest rocket launch from the Kodiak Island spaceport, a "plus-up" underway at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, more than 50 dead shearwaters found near Kodiak beaches, brown bears are wreaking havoc at the landfill, the Alutiiq Museum's annual meeting, and KIBSD school district staff prepare for the new school year.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we discuss the upcoming Alaska Confluence Summit coming to Kodiak later this month. Lee Hart with the Alaska Outdoor Alliance and Brock Simmons with Discover Kodiak preview the upcoming event and discuss the local and statewide regenerative economy.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Trout UnlimitedThis week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Seaweed could be is the secret ingredient in cement, according to Bellamy Pailthorp of KNKX, Wali Rana reports on the new processor in Savoonga courtesy of KNOM, and Resurrection Creek is nearly restored, story by KDLL's Hunter Morrison.
Alaska News
- Alaskans could vote on ballot initiative to expand psychedelic access
- Anchorage opens new shelter as part of shift in homelessness strategy
- New APU lab will help Alaska communities test for microplastics
- 'The time is now,' Rep. Begich tells Alaska's oil and gas industry
- Rep. Nick Begich did well with Bitcoin. He wants the government to own some, too.
- US House Natural Resources Committee members tour Alaska to survey mining, timber resources
- Federal trial begins alleging Alaska OCS is failing children in foster care
- Questions remain after Alaska psychiatric patient's death, including how he died
- Rockslides have battered Skagway’s biggest cruise ship dock. What else is at risk?
- This Anchorage box turtle has outlasted a dozen jobs, 8 homes and 3 Saabs
NPR National News
- Trump confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat
- In a major antitrust ruling, a judge lets Google keep Chrome but levies other penalties
- Military lawyers called up to relieve a shortfall in immigration judges
- Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events
- Tick tock: Congress has 14 legislative days to stop a government shutdown
- Oscar-nominated actor Graham Greene, of 'Dances With Wolves,' dies at 73
- New books this week track John Williams' life, future pandemics and NASA fiction
- Vogue promotes Chloe Malle to top editor spot
- Love songs are weird right now
- As many as 1,000 killed in Sudan landslide