An early melt-out date can make for an especially bad wildfire season, but this year, it’s right on schedule for much of the state. Listen now
One important factor is the depth of the lake. But there are other variables too.
It had to be one of the strangest cases of eagle death that Danielle D'Auria has ever seen.
There has been an outbreak in Fairbanks of the amber-marked birch leaf miner (Profenusa thomsoni), an insect that came to North America in the early 1900s and arrived in Fairbanks by about 2002.
Looking over a longer time span, bears in the southern Beaufort Sea are now using land to an extent they haven’t used it historically,” a researcher said.
The whale is located in an inaccessible place where scientists are unable to take a necropsy.
The rehabilitation center in Seward doesn’t usually get bearded seals, which live much farther north.
The National Weather Service forecast wind gusts up to 50 mph in some places and whiteout conditions.
Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.
The precipitation, although lasting just a few days, was good news for dams supplying water to more than 15 million people in the city. Just a few weeks after a drought alert, dams have seen a rise in their water levels.
Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.
As of Friday afternoon, the sockeye escapement in the Chignik salmon fishery was less than half of what it usually is this time of the year.
The statewide average temperature in December was 19.4 degrees, 15.7 degrees above the 20th century average.
A September storm caused damage in Utqiagvik, and Gov. Bill Walker declared a disaster there last month.
Scientists have narrowed down the top likely causes of more than 1,400 seal deaths across New England.
Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.
Joe Gaydos found a bluefin tuna washed up on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington state. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the fish usually roam the more temperate waters of the Pacific Ocean.
Anchorage sidewalks were slick with ice and the roads were full of puddles because of unseasonably high temperatures.By mid morning the temperature had reached 46 degrees.
KRG’s civil security director Craig Lingard said that in the last decade or so, “we have seen increased snowfall, even more so on the Hudson coast communities.”
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