Climate & Environment/Science

March brought a series of storms across the Seward Peninsula, and in one Bering Strait community that meant a series of power outages.

Flying over the Kigluaik Mountains. Photo: Jenn Ruckel, KNOM.

The Department of the Interior is delaying plans that could have opened 28 million acres of BLM lands in Alaska to mining and mineral development.

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.