In recent years, all five salmon species have shown up in rivers from northeast Alaska to Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic.
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A sea ice monitoring project is a climate adaptation tool for Utqiaġvik whalers
Whalers say it’s harder to find the thick, flat ice crews rely on to support the bowhead whales they pull in. Tools like the whaling maps and radar images help make whaling safer.
For one Utqiaġvik family, spring bowhead whaling marks an important milestone
For Inupiat communities on the North Slope, bowhead whaling is a central part of spring. But climate change is adding an extra element of uncertainty to the whaling season.
Scientists, Alaska Native leaders say the Arctic faces a growing crisis from plastic waste
The authors of a new report will join representatives from more than 180 other countries to negotiate a United Nations plastics treaty.
Russian objection to US territorial claims off Alaska complicates maritime relationship
The development shows how failure to ratify the Convention on the Law of the Sea puts the U.S. at a disadvantage, says Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Microplastics found in body tissues of walruses harvested by Alaska hunters
Discovery of tiny bits of plastic in the muscles, blubber and livers of Pacific walruses adds to evidence of pollution’s spread through the world’s oceans.