We knew the Bering Sea could turn savage, and it did. Blasted by gale-force winds and surrounded by heaving seas, we pushed through a passage that tested our limits and our vessel’s strength.

A tragic incident in the Bering Sea has resulted in 15 confirmed deaths, marking one of the deadliest events in recent years. Rescue efforts continue as authorities work to understand what led to this ...

Riedel is back for yet another season of the hit Discovery Channel show “Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice” – only this time she and her friends and foes are searching for fortune amid the ...

Peggy’s data were a bit of a shock. From an anchored vantage point in an expanse of the southeastern Bering Sea west of Alaska, Peggy, or mooring M2, had monitored conditions in the water for 25 ...

The Bering Sea changes brought about by the lack of winter ice represent “the ecosystem of the future,” said Phyllis Stabeno, a Seattle-based oceanographer with the Pacific Marine ...

Norton Sound, part of the Northern Bering Sea, is seen from the outskirts of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Record-low winter ice in 2018, followed by near-record low ice in 2019, shocked the Northern ...

For Bering Sea snow crab, which in 2021 dwindled to the lowest abundance of adults observed in the 50-year record, the crash took multiple steps.

In 2018, about 3 billion mature snow crabs (Chionoecetes opilio) inhabited the Bering Sea along with roughly five billion immature crabs, the Seattle Times reported.But by late 2021, those numbers ...

The Bering Sea winter ice in 2018 was at the lowest point on record, and 2019 also was a bust. Researchers expect such winters to be the norm by midcentury as climate change escalates.

The Bering Sea winter ice, as it forms and as it melts, helps to create this very cold pool along the sea bottom. And the snow crab - they do fine in this very cold water.

The Bering Sea has lost roughly half its sea ice over the past two weeks and has more open water than ever measured at this time of year. “This is unprecedented,” said Brain Brettschneider, ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population triggered two consecuctive years of closure, starting in 2022.