South winds blew out most of the sea ice. Going to be bad ice if it refreezes for spring hunt.

11-18-15 Bearded seal with hair loss - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

10-20-14 Sleeper shark - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

Ringed seal with sores found in Shishmaref.

5-29-12 Unusual bearded seal - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

On my way home for a lunch break, I noticed a different type of bird that I have ever seen before.

Brown bears spotted by a resident for the first time on the island of Shishmaref.

10-19-13 Hairless seal - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

10-17-13 No ice fishing yet - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) with Saprolegnia

The sea is our garden for food and other things.

Dead orca observed in the Bering Strait region.

9-04-15 Swainson's thrush - Wales, Alaska, USA

We are spotting dead baby 'spotted' and 'ringed' seals washing up on the beach with no signs of lesions or signs of gun shots.

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.

The bird is not commonly seen in the Teller area.

The northern grasshoppers never been observer here before.

A unique insect?

Fish

Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

Late freeze-up of sea ice along the shoreline

Sea ice is here and then disapears.

At Moses Point, Northeast of Elim, we found a dead beluga whale.

Several sightings of dead baby belugas were reported on the shores of the community and in the area over the past few days.

Despite the time of year, there is still no snow on the Seward Peninsula.

12-19-13 Wind blew out the ice - Elim, Alaska, USA

10-15 13 Too wet for food preservation - Elim, Alaska, USA

There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.

6-2-13 Low number of birds - Golovin, Alaska, USA

Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.

Golovin ponders fungus bloom

11-4-13 Ice fishing hazardous - Golovin, Alaska, USA

7-3-14 Kelp greenling - Golovin, Alaska, USA

Early Salmonberries (Rubus chamaemorus)

A snowmachiner was trapped on the quickly moving floe and he was rescued later by a helicopter.

Ponds in and around the Nome area are drying up.

No Permanent Winter Ice and Early Break Up For Nome

Heavy rains and flooding.

Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.

Low water on area rivers

Pine grosbeak

Visits Port of Nome before voyage through Northwest Passage.

1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA

Blueberries are ripe early!

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.

10-24-13 Warm weather delays subsistence - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

6-8-13 Low water level - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

1-23-14 Coyote sighting - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

Hunters noticed some herring were starting to spawn near Cape Denbigh. The herring scheduled to arrive on May 25th, are over a week early.

1-20-14 Snow then rain - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

Salmon and crab gear seeing an incredible increase in mussel roe and slime.

Seal with hair loss observed in Bering Strait region

Spring river ice change - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

Commercial and Subsistence Harvest

Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.

11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

High rate of change in weather conditions

Unusual weather pattern that changes conditions quickly.

Unalakleet River goes out early

Lack of sea ice affects seal hunting.

Sea ice conditions making it difficult for community to harvest seasonal fish.

The past couple of years there haven't been a lot to pick.

A heatwave in Unalakleet, Alaska.

Good year for Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)

1-26-14 Ice disrupts subsistence - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

3-5-13 Changing sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

Series of storms contribute to flooding, erosion, infrastructure damage.

Allergy season happening sooner

Species of nematode Splendidofilaria pectoralis has been described in blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus pallidus) in British Columbia, but never as far north and west as Unalakleet.

Unusual weather patterns are pushing the sea ice away from the coast.

9-24-13 Bluff erosion - St. Michael, Alaska

10-10-14 Unseasonable weather - St. Michael, Alaska, USA

Hundreds of birds washed up on the shores of St. Lawrence Island.

This fall freeze-up was somewhat delayed, not just in the Bering Straits region, but all the way up to Barrow.

No sea ice; hunters say it should not be like this today.

Residents use drones to show unusual sea ice conditions along the Chukchi coast.

Rough seas and moving sea ice.