5-30-13 Flooding Kobuk River - Kobuk, Alaska, USA
Severe storms wreak havoc to a Bering Sea community; the following weather conditions contributed to flooding, disrupting transportation routes, electrical transformers and seepage into local water wells.
11-27-12 Still no snow or Yukon ice - Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA
11-21-12 Air pockets in river ice - St. Marys, Alaska, USA
Yukon Flats community dealing with river erosion and landscape changes that are threatening the loss of traditional harvesting areas.
9-21-12 Extreme rain and flooding - Wasilla, Alaska, USA
A normal daily river level here is about 46', so we are nearly eight (8') feet above normal.
Extremely high water on the Noatak
Fisheries Minister Gail Shea is crowing about the opportunities with the 2010 return of sockeye to the Fraser river, calling it a banner year for Fraser River sockeye salmon. This year's return is currently set at just over 25 million fish, one of the highest returns in the last hundred years. Several fishery openings for Fraser River sockeye have already occurred in 2010 and more are planned, she said.
6-17-12 Heat wave across Interior - Galena, Alaska, USA
Voracious predator could be big threat to native aquatic populations
Erosion on the banks of the Koyukuk River is increasing in the community of Evansville and Bettles.
Kuskokwim River flooding causes concern in community
Ruben Henry won't ever forget the day the Chandalar River ran red along the banks of Arctic Village. It was the talk of the tight-knit, Brooks Range town, and no one had could remember it ever happening before.
Thirty-two musk oxen carcasses were found March 15 by scientists who had been studying them. The animals were dead and entombed in ice. The belief is that the musk oxen either drowned during a February thaw or became trapped in water and died after it froze.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Swollen with recent rains, the Matanuska River has launched another erosive assault on properties along its banks. But unlike previous years, when the river attacked properties downstream,
Cyanobacteria blooms usually occur in summer.
Anchorage anglers got good news this week when Fish and Game reported that pesticide applied to Cheney Lake last October in an effort to wipe out invasive northern pike appears to have worked.
With a sickening thud, another hefty and handsome salmon lands in the waste barrel, headed for the dogs .
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