Today’s Geo Quiz features Michael Paterniti, author of the new book, ‘The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese.’
Valdez, Alaska, turns to outside help to dig out from 10+ foot snow drifts
The Pineapple Express jet stream from Alaska is meeting up with a Siberian cold air mass over Alaska and it’s dropping foot after foot of snow on top of many Alaskan communities.
VIDEO: National Guard called to dig out town buried under 10 feet of snow
In little Cordova, Alaska, a town accessible only by air and sea, they’re struggling with removing the 130 inches of snow that have fallen in December and the first eight days of January — and more snow is on the way.
Giant gold, copper deposits discovered in Alaska — digging them out the trouble
About 200 miles from Anchorage, in a remote corner of a remote state, there’s hundreds of billions of dollars of minerals laying underground. Getting them out, however, could endanger an important natural ecosystem.