This year was one of the warmest and wettest in recorded history and permafrost thaw is causing the ground at the community cemetary to thaw and erode. The community is seeking guidance on best practices for relocation of remains.
Widespread mortality events that include more than one fish species are indicators that something is wrong in the environment.
Wales lost shorefast ice early in the season. Ice along the shore has been crushed and broken. This is a very unusual event for Wales as many of our hunters rely on great ice conditions for whale and other sea mammal catch for food.
The “thermal curtain” is another expression for “cold pool” that acts as a barrier to keep some species—pollock and Pacific cod, for example — from migrating across the eastern Bering Sea shelf and northward toward the Bering Strait. For the first time in 37 years of surveying the Bering Sea, we could not find the cold water barrier.
Possible wolf spider seen in Teller
Spiders possibly wolf spiders of family (Lycosidae) numbering some 75 to 100 were seen on top of snow along Boulder Creek road and lagoon.
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.
Last week, social media across Western Alaska lit up as residents posted photos and videos of open water where, normally, there's ice.
Three of the walruses had low to moderate levels of saxitoxin, while the fourth one had high levels.
Weather patterns have changed so much in the past several years.
Teller, Alaska is identified by the US Army Corps of Engineers as one of 31 villages in imminent danger of the effects of climate change.
No sea ice; hunters say it should not be like this today.
Hazy fourth of July...
White-winged crossbill
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.
Dead orca observed in the Bering Strait region.
9-04-15 Swainson's thrush - Wales, Alaska, USA
The northern grasshoppers never been observer here before.
8-1-14 Unusual spider - Wales, Alaska, USA
The bird is not commonly seen in the Teller area.
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