Nome's landscape is physically altered, with raw material scattered wildly, the coastline reconfigured, and camps that anchored generations of subsistence either flattened or gone.
The storm could have threatened the town’s winter subsistence stock if not for the work of local power plant operators.
Westfall thanked his training with the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association to help him maximize his odds for survival.
Shaktoolik has lost its berm to the storm that’s hammered Western Alaska over the weekend, according to Mayor Lars Sookiayak. The berm was all that protected the small village from the sea. “It really saved us from the first hit that came in this morning,” one resident said.
There are plenty of seals in Unalaska, but ringed seals -- who make their homes on the ice -- are rare.
Officials are still examining the substance in a lab to determine what it is, but DEC suspects it’s black tar or asphalt.
Last week, social media across Western Alaska lit up as residents posted photos and videos of open water where, normally, there's ice.
At a lab in Kodiak, researchers are working to understand whether crabs can adapt to ocean acidification.
If you’re living in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta a hundred years from now, it’s going to be hot and wet, according to a new study by scientists at the International Arctic Research Center, an institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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