Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.
By this time of the year, we usually have 2-3 miles of shore-fast ice that sticks to our beach. We as a village have not done our winter harvest of seals and walrus, and we are worried that we will not be able to bowhead whale hunt.
11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
Thawing all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trail.
1-26-14 Ice disrupts subsistence - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA
10-17-13 No ice fishing yet - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
Severe storms wreak havoc to a Bering Sea community; the following weather conditions contributed to flooding, disrupting transportation routes, electrical transformers and seepage into local water wells.
Lack of sea ice affects seal hunting.
Despite the time of year, there is still no snow on the Seward Peninsula.
Yukon Flats community dealing with river erosion and landscape changes that are threatening the loss of traditional harvesting areas.
Permafrost thawing causing bridge damage.
9-21-12 Extreme rain and flooding - Wasilla, Alaska, USA
At least 50,000 homes and businesses lost power late Tuesday, and outages continued through Wednesday.
This summer has been one of the rainiest Ulaanbaatar has ever experienced, leaving behind puddles of water that result in cracked and deteriorated roads.
There has been an outbreak in Fairbanks of the amber-marked birch leaf miner (Profenusa thomsoni), an insect that came to North America in the early 1900s and arrived in Fairbanks by about 2002.
Extremely high water on the Noatak
Eroding bluff threatens community transportation access.
Sea ice conditions making it difficult for community to harvest seasonal fish.
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