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Jan. 9—Stormy weather in the Bering Sea on Friday was keeping response crews from getting to a 134-foot crab boat that ran aground on the island of St. George on Monday. State officials say they don't ...

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Nine fishermen were rescued Monday from a crab boat that ran aground on St. George Island and began taking on water in rough weather. The Arctic Sea, a 134-foot crab boat with a few thousand pounds of ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

In 2023, the film Island X documented a cold-water experiment. Could one find and surf waves on a mysterious patch of land in the Bering Sea known for research on seal colonies? At the end of the ...

Federal fishery managers are keeping the Bering sea pollock quota flat next year, even as they move to sharply reduce catch limits in the Gulf of Alaska. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council ...

In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary on the saber-toothed seals Jack Tamisiea As a paleobotanist, Kirk Johnson’s ...

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic. Illustration of the extinct Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a sirenian that ...