Climate change changes Indigenous seal hunting
A changing climate resulting in reduced sea ice coverage is causing Indigenous seal hunters who rely on the marine mammals for subsistence to change their methods. ...
Alaska
USDA plans to reinstate protections for in Tongass National Forest
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to repeal or replace the previous administration’s rule that exempts the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from ...
Wolverines den in caves formed in permafrost
Wolverines use deep fissures in the Arctic permafrost as dens, photos have revealed. “After we found three of them, it seemed like enough of a pattern to start ...
Biden administration supports refuge-splitting road in Alaska
The Biden administration is supporting an effort to build a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In 2019, then-Secretary of the Interior David ...
Watch: Bearded seals can’t compete with industrial sounds
The loud sounds bearded seals emit underwater may not be noisy enough to overcome the sound from increasing industrial activities off the coast of Alaska. Recent ...
Massive murre die-offs mirrored by reproductive failure
Murre colonies that experienced die-offs in the Bering and Chukschi seas off the coast of Alaska in 2018 also experienced reproductive failure. “The majority of ...
To solve sea otter riddle, researchers look to archaeology
It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, ...
Interior moves ahead with ANWR drilling plans
The Bureau of Land Management is calling for the oil and gas industry to nominate tracts of land along the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that ...
Wild Cam: Brown bears prey on sea otters on Alaskan islets
Researchers working in Alaska’s Katmai Coast have discovered a surprising new interaction between mammals on small islands off the coast: grizzly bears are ...
Lack of sea otters hurts Alaskan reefs
A combination of climate warming and loss of sea otters is harming the reefs that underpin Alaskan kelp forests in the Aleutian Islands. “Despite the fact that ...