Climate & Environment/Science

One white. one gray beluga swimming in water. Shot from aerial view.

Researchers can now use the epigenetic information taken from beluga skin samples to determine their age.

Woman in white vest stands next to Alaska Native painting and shelves of vinyl records.

Savoonga’s Viola “Vi” Waghiyi is one of the 26 members chosen by President Biden and Vice-President Harris for the new White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

Operators at the Savoonga Power Plant are cleaning up between 15 and 20 thousand gallons of diesel fuel after a temporary fix on a fuel line failed over the weekend. On Saturday, Alaska Village Electric Cooperative workers in Savoonga noticed diesel fuel from one of their bulk oil storage tanks overflowing into the secondary containment…

Crews in Wales continue to recover hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel spilled near the Kingikmiut School last week.

Coastal seabirds have experienced significant die-offs in Western Alaska the past few years. But recent results suggest that offshore birds are also feeling the impact of low ice and warming ocean temperatures in the Bering Sea.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy is in the ice Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, about 715 miles north of Barrow, Alaska.(NyxoLyno Cangemi/U.S. Coast Guard)

The US Coast Guard’s sole heavy icebreaker, Polar Star, recently broke the nation’s 40-year winter absence from the Arctic Circle.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still reviewing a gold mining project proposed by IPOP LLC from last year. But as of February 1st, the company submitted another permit application to the Corps for review.

a dock with a man inspecting a saildrone.

Sea floor mapping continues to utilize unmanned technologies potentially making nautical travel safer and more efficient in Western Alaska.

There will be commercial crabbing in the Norton Sound this winter. Whether there’s Red King Crab around or enough fishers to catch them remains to be seen, but ADF&G is optimistic.

Sea ice extent in the Bering Sea was at record low levels at the end of 2020. And with recent strong northerly winds combined with mild temperatures, sea ice coverage in the Bering Strait region is still not ideal.