Folks here are famous for being able to handle the cold, but anything wet in December has always made us nervous. Especially wet falling from the sky. Lately, weather, our favorite nemesis, has broken the rules. Our confidence in the most-trustworthy feature of the Arctic -- winter -- has been wounded.

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.

Series of storms contribute to flooding, erosion, infrastructure damage.

11-4-13 Ice fishing hazardous - Golovin, Alaska, USA

Coastal erosion potential threat to community sewage lagoon.

The sea is our garden for food and other things.

3-5-13 Changing sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

Lack of sea ice affects seal hunting.

A snowmachiner was trapped on the quickly moving floe and he was rescued later by a helicopter.