During our ambitious Northwest Passage voyage, we confront major fuel challenges in the unforgiving Bering Sea, testing our ...

We knew the Bering Sea could turn savage, and it did. Blasted by gale-force winds and surrounded by heaving seas, we pushed ...

Research published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science linked fur seal deaths in the Bering Sea to the same ...

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.

The Bering Sea changes brought about by the lack of winter ice represent “the ecosystem of the future,” said Phyllis Stabeno, ...

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.

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 ...

Bad weather is the main hazard for Bering Sea fishing vessels at this time of year, said Lt. Brenden Kelley, operations officer and navigator on the Kodiak-based Monroe, a sister vessel to the ...

An image on the left shows the iced-over Bering Sea this time of year in 2014. On the right is the Bering Sea melted as of Sunday, March 31. (NOAA) ...

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 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, ...

In 2018, when winter ice in the Bering Sea was scarcer than at any time since records began in the mid-1800s, the effects cascaded. Warmer-water fish like Pacific cod swam north into the Bering ...