An ice jam caused by warming spring temperatures near the village of Buckland has left most of the town underwater and cut off access to the airport road. Residents of the village of about 400 people are preparing to evacuate by boat if water levels continue to rise.

Warming temperatures may support growing grasshopper populations along the southern Seward Peninsula.

Unusually large cone crops may be the result of favorable variations in weather across several years.

Unusually high number of horseflies and wasps observed during a year with temperatures and precipitation levels above normal.

Warm water temperatures may be causing stress and increase the risk of infections and other illness in fish.

"Our temperatures reached 83 degrees, and seem to be getting hotter! We think that maybe the warm water has something to do with the humpy die-off?"

This comes just days after other reports of about 60 dead ice seals found from Kotlik to Kotzebue and Kivalina to Point Hope.

"Yesterday we came over to do an assessment of the high-water flood storm," said Northwest Arctic Borough Deputy Director of Public Services Dickie Moto, who grew up in Deering. "They lost a lot of ground on the front and on the back side of town because of the high water and rough seas.

Technology has changed, communities have moved, people have grown older, and the beluga whales the Kanigmiut have relied on for generations have all but disappeared.

Spring is approaching but it still seems too cold for this little guy.

Traditional knowledge keepers and ADFG identify as a chum salmon.

Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

A unique insect?

Fish

For one day last week, the village of Deering needed to use a boat to get to the airport.

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