In the last several years, Seth Kantner has gathered images and stories from the caribou herds that live near his home on the south side of the Brooks Range.
Arctic
November sea ice extent in the northern Bering is the best since 2012
Based on current forecast models, the entire Norton Sound could be covered in ice by the end of November.
A beluga from the Beaufort Sea has traveled unusually far south, to Washington State
NOAA Fisheries says the whale appears to have swum thousands of miles south from Arctic waters.
Scientists have documented an increase in harmful algal blooms in northern waters
In the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, there is a growing presence of Alexandrium cysts, an algal bloom that creates harmful saxitoxin.
House version of Biden’s $1.75 trillion bill would cancel drilling leases in Arctic Refuge
If the repeal goes through, the leases would be canceled immediately with payments returned to the companies that won the leases.
Biden administration lets stand a judgment thwarting Willow, a ConocoPhillips drilling project in Arctic
Conservation groups are cheering the Biden administration’s decision not to appeal a judgment that reversed approval for ConocoPhillips’ plan to develop drilling sites in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Threatened by melting sea ice, polar bears’ status up for review under Endangered Species Act
The review could result in polar bears being “uplisted” to endangered, with further protections, or de-listed altogether.
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.
Biden administration to review protections for polar bears
The federal agency listed polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2008.
Marine geology expedition takes research ship Sikuliaq farther north than it’s ever been
Researchers on the Sikuliaq have used an array of technology to survey the ocean floor of the Canada Basin and adjacent Chukchi Borderlands.