“It started breaking into pieces beneath us,” said Phillip Rode.
Warm ocean temperatures are keeping ice thin, which become easily moved by the wind. This ice movement separates commercial and subsistence crabbers from their gear, and have led to the loss of both crabbing and mining gear.
Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.
There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.
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