Pine grosbeak
By this time of the year, we usually have 2-3 miles of shore-fast ice that sticks to our beach. We as a village have not done our winter harvest of seals and walrus, and we are worried that we will not be able to bowhead whale hunt.
Dead orca observed in the Bering Strait region.
9-04-15 Swainson's thrush - Wales, Alaska, USA
The northern grasshoppers never been observer here before.
8-1-14 Unusual spider - Wales, Alaska, USA
Could invasive insect be an indicator of changing weather patterns?
The bird is not commonly seen in the Teller area.
Mystery mite
We are spotting dead baby 'spotted' and 'ringed' seals washing up on the beach with no signs of lesions or signs of gun shots.
Permafrost thaw and storms are drivers.
Heavy rains and flooding.
The sea is our garden for food and other things.
A snowmachiner was trapped on the quickly moving floe and he was rescued later by a helicopter.
8-7-12 Dead grey whale - Nome, Alaska, USA
Sunken vessel leads to petroleum spill.
I'm going to start by challenging myself to have more proactive conversations with my teens about climate change, and set some house rules about energy use and what we can do as individuals to reduce our consumption of things like plastics. I don't think it will stop glaciers from melting, but perhaps it will help us all prepare to take larger actions that will.
The red king crab that wasn't red appeared in Nome on Fourth of July.
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