Garbage collected on the beaches of the Bering Sea in Alaska. (Austin Ahmasuk) Garbage drifting from Asia to Alaska’s beaches is nothing new. But this year, there is a mysterious and disturbing tide that is piling up along the coasts of the Bering Strait...
The fires in the mostly remote areas of Siberia charred an area larger than Belgium. It was only thanks to satellite images that the authorities were able to identify which areas were burning, as many regions are in the middle of nowhere. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory...
Various salmon species, such as these sockeye salmon in Alaska, after hatching in the streams inland, migrate into the open sea where they remain and grow for a few years before migrating back to their original streams, spawning and then dying. This is called an...
Earlier than in the past years the walruses come to the beach of Point Lay due to the lack of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Pacific walruses started to gather earlier than usual on land, on a beach at the Chukchi Sea. The...
Three polar bears are searching for food along the coast of the Beaufort Sea within the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo: (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) On August 17, 2020, the Trump administration completed a plan to authorize oil and gas...
