Research published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science linked fur seal deaths in the Bering Sea to the same toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. It marks the first documented ...

Visitors to this dot of land in the Bering Sea find music from a surprising source. Field technicians Margaret Archibald and Matthew Lorhstorfer take a daily walk around Alaska’s Walrus Islands ...

The Bering Sea’s record-breaking heat wave started in 2018. Erin Fedewa, a fisheries biologist, ... In August, 10 dead northern fur seals washed up on a beach near Sea Lion Neck, ...

On the Bering Sea, there are gale force winds, sudden storms, floating ice, and long distances that can make rescue impossible. There is freezing spray, which must be continually knocked off a ...

A shimmery deep-sea creature measuring almost 5 feet mysteriously washed ashore on an Oregon beach. Now, researchers get a chance to learn more about the lancetfish. The big-eyed fish with sharp ...

Dr. Portner, who has been studying lancetfish for a decade, said the fish had been washing ashore “for at least 300 years and likely longer,” and like the Oregon officials, he said that “no ...

A shimmery deep-sea creature measuring almost 5 feet mysteriously washed ashore on an Oregon beach. Now, researchers get a chance to learn more about the lancetfish. The big-eyed fish with sharp ...

Ten fur seals and hundreds of fish washed up dead on a Pribilof beach last year. New research links the die-off to warming oceans. Harmful algal blooms linked to die-off of fur seals in the Bering Sea ...