A strong storm impacting NW Alaska with high winds and sea level rise (over 6 ft) caused localized flooding in Kotzebue.
Coastal erosion occurring near Cape Blossom, outside of Kotzebue, Alaska.
We could not figure out the what type of sea mammal it is.
Summer rain affecting subsistence food preservation.
With fewer caribou in the area and the higher cost of fuel to travel upriver to find the animals, families and neighbors are finding themselves in a tough spot.
The size of a large caribou herd in Alaska's Arctic region has dropped by more 50 percent over the last three years, and researchers who have tentatively ruled out hunting and predation as significant factors for the decline are trying to determine why.
Residents puzzled about origins of underground fire.
Tapioca like growth identified as larval trematode parasites (digenean metacercariae).
Unseasonably warm in Arctic.
The lynx population is up this year in Kivalina
Above normal temperatures in the Northwest Arctic region
Ducks were fly north along shoreline of Kivalina
Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) with Saprolegnia
Coastal erosion near Cape Blossom
With caribou herds in decline and migration patterns swaying in recent years, news that caribou are following a more traditional migration route near Kivalina and Noatak caused a buzz this fall.
The ocean is still open, and have not even begun to freeze yet.
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.
Predaceous diving beetle
Crane fly adult
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