Over the past 160 years, numerous projects have been both arrogant and far-fetched in their framework, writes historian David ...

Ayesha Rascoe asks Seattle Times reporter Hal Bernton about the drop in the population of Bering Sea snow crabs, and why scientists think climate change may be an important driver. Crabbing in the ...

Norton Sound, part of the Northern Bering Sea, is seen from the outskirts of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Record-low winter ice in 2018, followed by near-record low ice in 2019, shocked the Northern Bering ...

KODIAK, Alaska — Snow crabs are creatures that historically have filled Alaska's Bering Sea. That's why when they vanished, everyone was caught off guard. State of Alaska Researcher Ben Daly said in ...

Clusters of snow crab legs are displayed on Jan. 13 at the seafood counter at a midtown Anchorage grocery store. The product was identified as previously frozen. This season’s Alaska’s Bering Sea snow ...

This story was originally published by Grist and was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. My small turboprop plane whirred low ...

NOAA researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska BioMap have been working on identifying genetic stocks of ...

Sea ice in the Bering Sea, on the southern margin of the Arctic Ocean, dwindled to its smallest wintertime expanse in 5,500 years in 2018, new data show. Summertime sea ice loss due to climate change ...

The Bering Sea, a frigid strip of ocean between Alaska and Russia, was once the much-warmer home to a rich diversity of life, new research suggests. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

The Arctic has seen some weird happenings as the climate crisis reshapes the region, but among the most dramatic was what happened in winter 2018 in the Bering Sea. Despite the inky black days, ice ...