A range of wildlife-related events have been occurring this month in Shishmaref and other parts of Norton Sound.
"When we looked over the side of the boat, we saw clumps of mussels floating up the whole Tuksuk channel. No one has ever heard of something like this before."
Widespread mortality events that include more than one fish species are indicators that something is wrong in the environment.
Wales lost shorefast ice early in the season. Ice along the shore has been crushed and broken. This is a very unusual event for Wales as many of our hunters rely on great ice conditions for whale and other sea mammal catch for food.
The smelt, caught through the ice in late January, may have caused a person who ate some to get sick. Local, tribal and state officials worked together to collect and analyze the fish.
Very strong south winds took out all the sea ice and created an ice pile in front of the village.
There’s only one historical record of a great white shark in the Bering Sea: fishermen caught one nearly 40 years ago. But scientists have reason to believe that in recent years there might be more of the predators around.
In May and June, dead birds, mostly murres, have been washing up on beaches on St. Lawrence Island, Shishmaref and east Norton Sound.
Possible wolf spider seen in Teller
Spiders possibly wolf spiders of family (Lycosidae) numbering some 75 to 100 were seen on top of snow along Boulder Creek road and lagoon.
The weather was warm and the ice was late in coming, so Dennis Davis set up a piece of equipment unknown to his Inupiaq forebears: his drone.
Rough seas and moving sea ice.
As snow machines zoomed past, Dennis Davis set up his new drone. According to Davis, blue ice is more solid than white. Those are areas hunters can travel across more safely as they search for marine mammal prey.
Residents use drones to show unusual sea ice conditions along the Chukchi coast.
A recent storm in Norton Sound has increased coastal erosion affecting community transportation.
Weather patterns have changed so much in the past several years.
Teller, Alaska is identified by the US Army Corps of Engineers as one of 31 villages in imminent danger of the effects of climate change.
This fall freeze-up was somewhat delayed, not just in the Bering Straits region, but all the way up to Barrow.
Unusual Spider?
First time we have seen so many ladybugs on our island.
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