Looking over a longer time span, bears in the southern Beaufort Sea are now using land to an extent they haven’t used it historically,” a researcher said.

The whale is located in an inaccessible place where scientists are unable to take a necropsy.

Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.

The rehabilitation center in Seward doesn’t usually get bearded seals, which live much farther north.

The National Weather Service forecast wind gusts up to 50 mph in some places and whiteout conditions.

Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.

As of Friday afternoon, the sockeye escapement in the Chignik salmon fishery was less than half of what it usually is this time of the year.

The statewide average temperature in December was 19.4 degrees, 15.7 degrees above the 20th century average.

A September storm caused damage in Utqiagvik, and Gov. Bill Walker declared a disaster there last month.

Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.

Anchorage sidewalks were slick with ice and the roads were full of puddles because of unseasonably high temperatures.By mid morning the temperature had reached 46 degrees.

Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.

The state's small farms are booming amid longer growing seasons and thriving farmers markets. But climate change has also made for less predictable weather.

This season the birch pollen has been particularly bad. Some people with asthma have had to leave the state. The peak was May 18 when pollen counts were 974 grains per cubic meter.

Scientists have narrowed down the top likely causes of more than 1,400 seal deaths across New England.

Anchorage-based photographer saw something wild — a sudden, bright light on the northern horizon that quickly started to take on a spiral shape as it drew nearer. The spiral “appears to be rocket engine exhaust from a SpaceX Transporter-7 mission that launched on the Falcon 9 about three hours earlier in California.”

An early melt-out date can make for an especially bad wildfire season, but this year, it’s right on schedule for much of the state. Listen now

One important factor is the depth of the lake. But there are other variables too.

How the virus is contracted and how long it’s been around still remain a mystery. But researchers have found evidence in small mammals.

The North Water Polynya, between Nunavut and Greenland, is one of the Arctic’s most biologically productive areas — and an important part of the food supply for nearby Inuit communities.