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Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers, and other Arctic conditions are being discontinued.

2018 was the second warmest year for Bethel in nearly 100 years of recordkeeping. According to Rick Thoman, a climate scientist in Alaska, Bethel has been…

Temperatures in Bethel and the surrounding villages plunged below zero at the end of December and have stayed there, freezing pipes and backing up sewage.…

November 2021 was brutally cold-- the kind of cold that slaps you across the face and doesn’t stop there. It also freezes barges in their tracks and makes pipes burst open. But besides what you felt on your face, and the anecdotes you hear around town about frozen septic tanks, there’s hard evidence too.

Bethel had its first frost in September of this year. It’s not as late as last year's, but it’s still late. And that, one climatologist says, is the new…

Climate scientist Rick Thoman said that fires like this summer's East Fork Fire were once rare. Now, he said, they are likely to become more common as the earth continues to warm.

Temperatures in the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas are once again smashing records. The warmer temperatures will weaken winter sea ice and…

Weekend weather across the Y-K Delta is forecast to be windy with a continued drop in temperatures.

In Bethel, the 2024-2025 season has been the sixth mildest winter in 101 years of climate records, according to data from the National Weather Service.

Between resignations, firings, and paperwork errors, at least 23 of the roughly 200 people in the National Weather Service's Alaska offices are no longer with the agency, a union source said.