Climate & Environment/Science

Chum salmon leaping near Cold Bay, AK. Photo: K. Mueller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

After the Norton Sound Commercial Fishery canceled its chum season due to record low chum runs, a promising run of pinks turned the summer around.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, announced a disaster declaration for the 2019 Norton Sound red king crab season.

A sunny day in Unalakleet. (Photo: Maddie Winchester, KNOM)

Local Norton Sound residents will help the United States Coast Guard respond to emergencies such as oil spills and rescue efforts.

The Denali Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded Kawerak Inc.’s Backhaul Alaska program with a three million dollar grant.

Multiple pink salmon swimming underwater

The prospects are dim for this summer’s Norton Sound commercial fishing and crabbing seasons.

Millions of dollars are being awarded to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in rural Alaska.

Recent research suggests that climate change increases the input of mercury into the Arctic Ocean, and ultimately in the amount found in fish and marine mammals.

Despite seeing snow fall across the Norton Sound and Nome earlier this month, summer weather seems to have arrived in Western Alaska.

The Norton Sound city of Stebbins currently lacks running water or sewer to residential homes — but $7.5 million will help build a sustainable water and wastewater system for the community. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the funding in a news release Wednesday. The funds are part of the WIIN Act, or Water Infrastructure…

Kawerak brought in the Zender Environmental Health and Research Group to conduct a feasibility study for the potential project, a concrete step toward building a sustainable future in Nome.