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