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 Bering ...

After 10 days of dredging on the Bering Sea ocean floor, the crew finally starts cleaning up their concentrates. Bucket after bucket goes through the sluice as they wait to see whether all that work ...

KODIAK, Alaska — Snow crabs are creatures that historically have filled Alaska's Bering Sea. That's why when they vanished, everyone was caught off guard. State of Alaska Researcher Ben Daly said in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in ...

USCGC Waesche covered 18,685 nautical miles on a deployment that included maritime law enforcement and search-and-rescue ...

Clusters of snow crab legs are displayed on Jan. 13 at the seafood counter at a midtown Anchorage grocery store. The product was identified as previously frozen. This season’s Alaska’s Bering Sea snow ...

Snow crabs in the Bering Sea once numbered in the billions. But after a recent and massive population crash the crabs have all but vanished from these waters — and they may not be coming back anytime ...

This story was originally published by Grist and was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. My small turboprop plane whirred low ...

Ayesha Rascoe asks Seattle Times reporter Hal Bernton about the drop in the population of Bering Sea snow crabs, and why scientists think climate change may be an important driver. Crabbing in the ...

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 Bering ...