The federal agency tasked to manage ice seals this week declared an Unusual Mortality Event, UME for short, for bearded, ringed and spotted seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
The NOAA research vessel Ocean Starr tied up at the port causeway last weekend, one in a parade of vessels carrying ocean scientists and their tools to document effects of climate warming and loss of sea ice on the Arctic marine ecosystem....
Scientists are continuing to find sea life traveling north into warming Arctic waters. Record water temperatures are affecting fish distribution and viability in the Bering Sea. Jim Murphy is the lead research biologist involved in a Northern Bering...
The federal agency tasked to manage ice seals this week declared an Unusual Mortality Event, UME for short, for bearded, ringed and spotted seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas. This comes in response to increased reports that dead seals have been...
Traditional foods and how they come to the table is central to the cultural identity of the Inuit people. In Alaska, Chukotka, Canada and Greenland Inuit people have survived for thousands of years by hunting and fishing, living in harmony with the...
Blue skies, calm winds and balmy temperatures welcomed 98 runners from Nome, Kotzebue, Bethel, Teller, Elim, Koyuk, Golovin, Unalakleet, Stebbins, Savoonga and Brevig Mission to the Nome-Beltz XC Invitational, not counting the huge field of young...
Nome’s new Public Safety Commission, an advisory panel to the Council, reached a milestone Monday night after a year of planning.
Mayor Richard Beneville submitted a list of commission appointments to the Nome Common Council for their approval. The...
With the annual city elections coming up on October 1, Tuesday, Sept. 10 marked the deadline to file for candidacy and the lack of interest in civic engagement spoke loud in clear as only one city office up for election produced a challenger.
The...
Tom and Ellen Lopp spent ten years in Wales, from 1892 to 1902, as teachers and missionaries and during that time they acquired a large number of carvings, household items and other bits and pieces of local life. They cherished their collection...
As the National Weather Service warned of an impending fall storm to pummel western Alaska including Nome and Norton Sound communities on Wednesday, two high-level NOAA researchers made landfall here to hear the public’s first hand experience of...
