Seems to happen same time each year.

No one really knows why algae put so much effort into making poisons. Alexandrium makes saxitoxin, and causes PSP. Another algae called Pseudo-nitzschia produces domoic acid, the source of amnesiac shellfish poisoning.

But the age-old Inugguit lifestyle is changing fast as the climate warms, disrupting long-held patterns and possibilities and forcing economic challenges as a traditional hunting culture weighs new industries such as fishing and even tourism.

A limpet not seen in the area before.

A tundra fire has burned nearly 2,000 acres on the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge over the past week.

Forty-one whales have died in the past 15 months along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Maine. Ten of the whales were killed by collisions with ships.On average, eight humpback whales are stranded each year and fewer than two are hit by ships.

A parasitic copepod- similar to or possibly Salmincola.

Sixty years ago there were 12 of these such cellars in Kaktovik.Today there is only one left. All the other family cellars have been flooded and have collapsed.

The novelty of seeing a jumbo squid in Unalaska is not wearing off: a second one washed ashore Monday night.

Facilities for producing weapons grade plutonium believed safe despite fierce flames caused by wildfires.

Multiple groups of transient killer whales were spotted in the waters off Vashon Island Friday, according to the Vashon Hydrophone Project’s Ann Stateler (“Orca Annie”).

The changes in the region are so significant they will have implications across the globe