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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 worst-hit areas appear to be established neighborhoods with older spruce trees, especially in Turnagain and Spenard.
For the 60 or so villagers who live on the island of St. George, where Serge Lekanof was one of only a half-dozen 20-something men, the discovery of his body brings vivid grief.
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.
Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.
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.
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.
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.
Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.
At least 50,000 homes and businesses lost power late Tuesday, and outages continued through Wednesday.
Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.
The state's small farms are booming amid longer growing seasons and thriving farmers markets. But climate change has also made for less predictable weather.
This season the birch pollen has been particularly bad. Some people with asthma have had to leave the state. The peak was May 18 when pollen counts were 974 grains per cubic meter.
Over 600 icebergs have already floated into the North Atlantic this year, compared to an average of 687 over the whole season. Experts believe that this year’s bumper crop is down to strong counter-clockwise winds, as well as global warming.
Scientists have narrowed down the top likely causes of more than 1,400 seal deaths across New England.
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