A recent study estimates permafrost coverage on the peninsula has decreased by 60 percent since 1950. Permafrost is usually associated with Northern and Interior Alaska, but it also occurs in isolated pockets in wetlands on the Kenai Peninsula.
A robin was sighted in southcentral Alaska; an early arrival.
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska—be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
Hazardous driving conditions due to freezing rain.
Kachemak Bay has witnessed massive die-offs of sea stars, murres and razor clams. Whats going on?
Died on beach.
Saltwater fishery officials are reporting a resurgence of a mysterious condition that's bound to turn the stomachs of anglers -- mushy halibut syndrome. Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Barbi Failor said the department is receiving more reports of mushy fish caught by sport fishermen all over Cook Inlet.
But at least there is a stream...
Rapid growth of white spruce over the past three summers observed.
Washing ashore from Kachemak Bay
Year of the Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
Marine Mammal
An Eight-spotted Langson's (Fabricius, 1775) or Langson's Forester Couper observed lower Kenai Peninsula of Alaska.
Spruce Aphid (Elatobium abietinum) Damage
The rivers on the Kenai Peninsula are shucking their ice much sooner in the past few years than they have in decades, some flowing freely as early as
Communities on the southern coastline of Kenai Peninsula have noticed changes to trees as a result of the aphid.
More early bloomers in Southcentral Alaska.
The Department of Fish and Game plans to trap a flock of birds not native to Alaska that is trying to move in. The agency says starlings could cause big problems for humans and other birds native to the area. They want to get rid of the flock before their numbers grow.
Rapid changes raise questions.
Sea bird mortality observed on southeast end of Homer Spit
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