Summertime flu outbreaks.
Beware summer outbreaks of influenza, particularly those in popular vacation destinations. Prospective and retrospective data from a 1998 outbreak in Alaska and the Yukon Territory identified 2,864 cases of influenzalike illness, but the surveillance likely underestimated the outbreak magnitude and as many as an estimated 12,600 people...

Alaska in the Ice Age: was it bluegrass country? (Paleobiology).
At the height of the last ice age, northern portions of Alaska and the Yukon Territory were covered with an arid yet productive grassland that would have supported an abundance of large grazing mammals, according to a new analysis of fossils from the region. Botanical species in...

Watch Geriatric Crowd for Flare-ups of Old Infections and Entirely New Strains.
ATLANTA -- Globetrotting seniors may be the population to target for monitoring the status of emerging infections, Dr. Larry Strausbaugh said at an international conference on nosocomial infections sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The burgeoning over-65 population--expected to grow to 2.5 billion and...

Digging into the past.
Archaeological projects give visitors a chance to unearth artifacts at several national parks. TO THE NAKED EYE, the landscape around the Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico offers sagebrush and a dusty canyon. To archaeologists, the area's vegetation offers something more--clues to 1,000 miles...

Chances of a lifetime.
Have you an unfulfilled life-long ambition? A burning desire to do something out of the ordinary? Well, help could be at hand. John Warburton-Lee explains how IN 1997 I SPENT three months travelling in Canada's Yukon Territories and across Alaska unearthing the extraordinary stories of British people...

Boning up on bowhead habitats.
Boning up on bowhead habitats For the bowhead whales, "life has notalways been zooplankton and cream," says Donald M. Schell. During the late 1800s, whalers almost drove the animals to extinction, and now some people are concerned that the bowheads may be threatened by the offshore oil industry's...

Alaska's huge glacier-and-ghost park.
Size alone makes Alaska's Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve intimidating. At roughly 13 million acres, the nation's largest national park encompasses hundreds of peak-scouring glaciers on three major mountain ranges: Wrangell, Chugach, and St. Elias. Combined with neighboring Kluane National Park in Canada, it is one of...

Heart of the Yukon: a Natural and Cultural History of the Mayo Area.
HEART OF THE YUKON: A NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MAYO AREA. Edited by LYNETTE BLEILER, CHRISTOPHER BURN and MARK O'DONOGHUE. Mayo, Yukon: Village of Mayo, 2006. ISBN 0-9780263-0-6. (Available from Village of Mayo, PO Box 160, Mayo, YT YOB 1M0; mayo@northwestel.net) 138 p., maps, b & w...

Magellan to Receive Its Share of Kotaneelee Revenues.
MADISON, Conn., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Petroleum Corporation (Nasdaq: MPET) (Boston: MPC; PCX) said it expects to receive its first payment of net production proceeds later this month from the Kotaneelee gas field which is located in the Yukon Territory, Canada. A Magellan spokesman...

Seven Seas Holds Annual Meeting; Shareholders Approve Move to the Cayman Islands.
HOUSTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Seas Petroleum Inc. (Amex: SEV; Toronto: SVS.U) announced that at its annual and special shareholders meeting held today, approximately 85 percent of the votes cast by shareholders approved the proposed migration of the Company from the Yukon Territory, Canada to the...