Snow is melting sooner and coming in later on the North Slope, and that, in turn, is having an affect on other ecological variables.
This comes just days after other reports of about 60 dead ice seals found from Kotlik to Kotzebue and Kivalina to Point Hope.
The roughly 300 miles of hard-packed snow roads were constructed under the Community Winter Access Trails (CWAT) project, headed by the North Slope Borough.
Sixty years ago there were 12 of these such cellars in Kaktovik.Today there is only one left. All the other family cellars have been flooded and have collapsed.
While industry has had to adapt to changes, many locals are still struggling to find a new normal amidst the shifting seasons.
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For one day last week, the village of Deering needed to use a boat to get to the airport.
Danny Foster and Mike Hawley of Kivalina were ice fishing outside of town when they came upon something they’d never seen before. Incidentally, similar ice balls or ice eggs were reported on an ocean beach in Finland on the same day.
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