Oceans

The vast majority of confirmed whale entanglements involved humpback whales.

A salvage company says the 98-foot F/V Pacific Sounder is too stuck to be towed.

A study of subsistence foods at St. Lawrence Island shows how contaminants carried to the far north by atmospheric and ocean currents persist for years, burdening the region’s Indigenous people.

Scientists from the conservation group Oceana, which is based in Juneau, spent eight days aboard a research vessel circumnavigating the Kodiak archipelago.

Through photographs shared by whale watchers, Happy Whale has recorded thousands of whales that travel to and from Alaska.

For 2023, the Navy wants to add 246,000 square miles to the area it can use for the exercise, stretching it west to a point south of Dutch Harbor.

For the cruise industry, scrubbers are a way to save money by allowing ships to burn cheaper, dirtier fuels. But the toxic chemicals removed from smokestack exhaust don’t just disappear.

The closures have been a response to low razor clam counts on the east side of Cook Inlet.

Written public testimony has been overwhelmingly in support of keeping or even expanding independent oversight by the marine engineers.

“If You Give a Beach a Bottle” incorporates scenes of volunteers cleaning up Alaska shorelines littered with marine debris, coupled with images from Romey’s watercolor sketchbooks.