Typhoon Merbok's flooding with seawater prevented the growth of crowberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, and local greens in the tundra surrounding the village until summer 2024, when they finally began to recover.

Staircases are separating from building and utility poles leaning.

River otters (Lutra canadensis) observed in a lake that typically is home to beavers.

There seems to be a large red fox population in the region around Nuiqsut, Alaska. When I last traveled there for work, I counted 5 red fox during a 1.5 hour-long car ride.