Climate scientists have found that the Bering Sea experienced lower winter sea ice coverage in 2018 than at any other point in the last 5,500 years. ... U.S. Geological Survey researcher and ...

Eight years ago, 85-year-old scientist David Klein harvested a vital sample from desolate St. Matthew Island. Now, the results from the core suggest that the Bering Sea is in a warm state unlike ...

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 ...

However, acidification is happening faster than predicted in Arctic waters north of the Bering Sea, according to a U.S. Geological Survey-led study published last year in the journal PLOS ONE.

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 ...

Sediments drilled from the sea floor under what are normally ice-covered, wind-battered parts of the Bering Sea are revealing the surprising nature of the last, most recent era in which that arm ...

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

A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea. Today this frigid strait separates North America and Asia, ...

The 2018 Bering Sea ice cover was at the lowest point in 5,500 years, according to a study led by U.S. Geological Survey geologist Miriam Jones published in 2021 in Science Advances.