For Bering Sea crabber Gretar Gudmundsson, December is a month for preparing his two boats for the winter harvest season. But not this year. For the first time, the winter snow crab season has ...

Imperialist rivalries have extended to one of the most environmentally fragile regions of the globe, explains In September ...

About 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea between 2018 and 2021. A recent study concluded that warmer water temperatures helped drive the crabs to starvation. Experts believe ...

Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm ...

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 ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population triggered two consecuctive years of closure, starting in 2022.

A vessel operating in the Bering Sea experienced a serious incident, prompting an emergency response. Officials are now investigating the cause and reviewing safety protocols.

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 ...

A young bull walrus rests on a piece of sea ice in Alaska waters on April 13, 2004. Walruses eat clams, mussels, snails and worms that live on the seafloor.

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 ...