In the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, there is a growing presence of Alexandrium cysts, an algal bloom that creates harmful saxitoxin.
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Native-owned Nome business makes traditional garments with modern materials
Alice Bioff’s designs merge traditional and cultural Alaska Native values with modern materials.
Marine debris is washing up again on Bering Strait shores
An “off-the-shelf” look implies the trash was dumped recently and close to the shore.
New Inupiaq and Yup’ik glossary is ‘one small step’ toward Indigenization of knowledge
Bering Strait regional nonprofit Kawerak has published a language glossary that provides research, science, policy and resource management terms in English, Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Yup’ik.
Dead seabirds are washing ashore in Western Alaska for the fifth straight summer
Subsistence users across the region are feeling the impacts of the die-off.
No cruise ships are coming to Nome this year
Jen Martin with Lindblad Expeditions said the cancellations were caused in part by issues with docking in Provideniya.
Interior Department delays plan to open 28 million acres of land in Alaska to mineral development
The delay will affect BLM land in five different areas of Alaska, but the most notable halt is on 9.7 million acres in the Kobuk-Seward Peninsula resource management area.
Savoonga woman to join White House council on environmental justice
Viola Waghiyi of Savoonga is one of the 26 members chosen for a new White House advisory council on environmental justice.
Bering Sea ice ‘resilient’ against winter storms this year, though extent is below average
Blizzards and winter storms battered the Seward Peninsula and surrounding region throughout the month of March, but the sea ice has proved more resilient than in recent years.
The country’s biggest icebreaker will take trip through Northwest Passage this summer, US Coast Guard says
Experts said the Coast Guard cutter Healy’s trip through the Northwest Passage signifies a willingness to cooperate between Canada and the United States.