Birch leaves bud early.
Warm temperatures drive emergence of early willow buds, pollen and honey bee activity.
Drought and high temperatures have dried the creek and caused thousands of pink salmon and Dolly Varden to die before they could spawn. The event raises questions about vulnerability of area salmon streams to climate change, and for local residents food security.
Yukon subsistence fishermen face challenges with gear restrictions, closures, and reports of salmon potentially infected with ichthyophonus, impacting their summer fishing activities.
A moose was seen with some of its fur missing.
Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.
The city of Anchorage can claim a new record. The city did not see a temperature drop below zero for the entire year of 2014. The last time Anchorage residents saw a below zero reading was December 26, 2013.
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.
11-18-15 Bearded seal with hair loss - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
We are spotting dead baby 'spotted' and 'ringed' seals washing up on the beach with no signs of lesions or signs of gun shots.
Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.
There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.
1-26-14 Ice disrupts subsistence - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
1-20-14 Snow then rain - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA
Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.
11-4-13 Ice fishing hazardous - Golovin, Alaska, USA
10-24-13 Warm weather delays subsistence - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
10-17-13 No ice fishing yet - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
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