Bering Sea

Typhoon Champi is just one of a series of fall storms fueled by a powerful El Niño, Jason Laney with the National Weather Service said.

According to the National Weather Service, Hooper Bay could see water levels as high as 7 feet above the normal high tide line and wind gusts as high as 70 miles per hour beginning early on the morning of Friday, Oct. 23, and extending into the evening.

The Arctic Report Card has been documenting environmental changes in the northern part of the globe for two decades.

Gubernatorial hopefuls are blasting Alaska's trawlers for catching salmon. Now, industry allies have launched a radio ad campaign.

Federal fisheries regulators said a cap would balance protections for Western Alaska salmon with the health of pollock fisheries.

In the past, Emmonak typically received large freight from Nenana, over 900 miles upstream on the Yukon River. Now, the hub community can receive freight from larger, ocean-going vessels up to a month earlier than before.

Forecasters say the powerful storm, potentially historic in strength, is expected to slam into the Y-K Delta early on Oct. 12 and then race up the coastline, bringing destructive winds and surging seas.

Communities are tallying up damage from a severe Bering Sea storm that brought flood warnings to a vast swath of Alaska’s western coast. But along the Yukon Delta coast, no significant damage was reported as of the morning of Thursday, Oct. 9.

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage from maternal seals to their young.

Amid the ongoing flooding, Kwigillingok’s tribe received a rare federal disaster declaration from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for damage wrought by another flood event in August 2024.