Record-low sea ice in 2018 sent ripples through the Bering Sea’s entire ... She has bachelor’s degrees in geology and European history and a Ph.D. in marine geochemistry from MIT and the ...

Bering Sea ice cover is usually at its greatest extent during the winter and spring, shown on April 29, 2013 (left). But on April 29, 2018 (right), the Bering Sea was virtually ice-free.

Winter sea ice extent in the Bering Sea is the lowest it has been for the past 5500 years and will soon be gone completely, according to a study of how it has changed in recent millennia.

The Bering Sea is a huge area for commercial fishing, because it’s a special ecosystem created by unusual geology and biology. The sea is technically just a portion of the Pacific Ocean, but it ...

The Kodiak History Museum and KANA are partnering on a new exhibit highlighting cooperation between scientists and Aleutian ...

Scientists behind the research have been studying oxygen isotopes in peat cores taken from St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. The team determined ice cover during the winters of 2018 and 2019 ...

An image of Typhoon Nuri at peak intensity over the Bering Sea on Nov. 8, 2014, ... “And so in geology and understanding coastal changes, ...

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the second year in a row — and the second time ever — due to dwindling crab population levels.. When researchers with ...

Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge may have been less an arid steppe grassland and more a boggy ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers.

Dramatically lower sea levels uncovered a vast land area known as Beringia that extended from Siberia to Alaska and supported herds of horses, mammoths, and other Pleistocene fauna. As the ice sheets ...

In the meantime, Bering Sea temperatures, which usually hover around freezing, were on the rise, spiking several degrees between 2017-2019. Unlike mammals, who use less energy when temperatures ...