There are plenty of seals in Unalaska, but ringed seals -- who make their homes on the ice -- are rare.

Last Tuesday, February 20, residents of Little Diomede have seen the impossible. Instead of looking out at a frozen seascape of ice, they witnessed open water and high surf crashing onto the shores and coming up beyond the high water line.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak flew over the area of an oil spill in Shuyak Strait on Wednesday afternoon, but weather continued to hamper response efforts, the Coast Guard said.

Recent storms and warm seas melted a vast stretch of ice in the Bering Sea, leaving some islands surrounded by water when they should be locked in ice.

Declining fertility and rising mortality, exacerbated by fishing industry, prompts experts to warn whales could be extinct by 2040

Arctic temperatures are warmer than ever recorded in February.

Without ice to provide protection from storm waves, Port Heiden has lost the old town road.

Last week, social media across Western Alaska lit up as residents posted photos and videos of open water where, normally, there's ice.

As global temperatures rise, the lives of countless plants and animals are changing in response. That includes king penguins, which a new study predicts will see profound, climate-driven changes in their numbers and the location of their breeding grounds over the next century.

In the depths of the long night that cloaks the Arctic in frigid darkness for three months each winter, a surprising patch of open water appeared, just to the north of Greenland.

I have never found live shrimp before in King Cove while subsisting for Chiton's not sure if it is unusual or significant.

For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.

Rough seas and moving sea ice.

It's about the size of a dinner plate and has a rubbery texture, was told it’s a sea cucumber but I’m not sure.

A sperm whale has been confirmed on Vancouver Island's eastern coast for the first time since 1984.

Researchers say the concentration of plastic waste in the European Arctic is now comparable or even higher than in more urban and populated areas.

Barbados’ most unwanted visitor has returned to its shores. The dreaded Sargassum seaweed is back. Since 2015 an influx of the unwelcome brown micro-algae has proven to be a major headache for the tourism industry. The seaweed, which invaded a number of beaches in Barbados, caused an awful stench, as the vegetable matter rotted after …

The Finnish researcher says the source of southern Finland's unusually slippery roads and messy snow this winter is very likely due to warm air from the sea.

While industry has had to adapt to changes, many locals are still struggling to find a new normal amidst the shifting seasons.