A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

The results didn’t come as a surprise to scientists, who had been observing that Sea ice extension was at near or record low ...

At that time, the Bering Sea became warmer and there was less ice cover than previously; other changes happened as well. (It is possible but not certain that in 2001 the regime is changing again ...

During this period of sea ice loss, wind speeds and wave heights increased. "In the Bering Sea, sea ice acts both to dampen waves as they hit the edge of the ice cover, and also to limit the ...