People living in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta felt something unusual this past holiday weekend: a heat wave. Temperatures crept close to 90 degrees in many parts of the region.
Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) found with jelly-like meat texture and thin skin near the armpit and ribcage.
Two quakes shook the coast of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Tuesday night about 45 miles offshore of the community of Hooper Bay.
Residents of Chevak and Hooper Bay found two species of sea bird either dead or approachable near the mouth of the Kiuqliiviq and Aprun rivers near fish camps. Residents of Hooper Bay also found a dead sea mammal on the beach.
Blackline Prickleback (Acantholumpenus mackayi) caught along the Bering Sea Coast
Ross's gull (Rhodostetia rosea) spotted in Hooper Bay, south of normal species range.
A GCI cell tower in Western Alaska encapsulated in unusually thick ice and snow has caused service disruptions in villages.
When the river takes the first houses, the village could start to scatter. And Newtok’s blend of the modern and traditional could erode away with the land.
I notice fluorescent glowing in the dark: happens to be the tomcods I caught the other day.
Black brant populations are struggling in the species' once-dominant Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta breeding areas, but conditions are better for brant breeding on the Arctic coastline.
We are losing coastline due to erosion and this is a sad sight to witness.
I went to gather some yesterday and there was no water to speak of; in a pond that's has been filled with water my whole life.
Seems to happen same time each year.
Bluff/cliff side erosion along the Ningikfak River.
Eroding bluff threatens community transportation access.
6-20-12 Petroleum smell in chum salmon - Chevak, Alaska, USA
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