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An air taxi with eight people aboard made an emergency landing on tundra when the engine failed near Alaska's Bering Sea coast.
A fishing boat that sank off the Alaska coast last year most likely lost its rudder, then flooded and went down, killing five crew members, federal safety officials said Wednesday.
Universal Pictures has said it will release an alien abduction film this fall that plays off of decades of unexplained disappearances and deaths in this old Gold Rush town along the Bering Sea.
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has rescued a French kayaker who became fatigued in the Bering Sea during his quest to circumnavigate the world.
The Coast Guard says a fishing trawler has run aground on a Bering Sea island and its five crew members have been safely rescued.
Several former crew members of a fishing vessel that sank in the Bering Sea testified about problems they observed aboard the ship, though inspectors said they found no discrepancies when they looked at the boat.
Large areas of the Bering Sea off Alaska's coast will soon be off-limits to bottom trawling, a practice involving fishing vessels that drag huge, weighted nets across the ocean floor.
Huge, whiskered male fur seals called "beach masters" are back on St. Paul Island after swimming a gantlet of lost or discarded fishing gear floating in the Bering Sea.
Contradicting earlier witnesses, a former captain of a fishing vessel that sank in the Bering Sea last month said the vessel sailed carefully through any pack ice it encountered.
The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world's most endangered whale.
A crewman who died at the site of a sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea fell from a rescue basket being pulled into a helicopter, a rescuer has testified.
Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village.
As the fishing vessel Alaska Ranger sank to the bottom of the Bering Sea, crewman Byron Carrillo and 1st Assistant Engineer James Madruga struggled to stay afloat in the rough and frigid waves.
Nearby vessels and a Coast Guard cutter helped the crew of a fish processing boat extinguish a laundry-room blaze Wednesday in the Bering Sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
A disabled freighter that had been drifting with 24 people aboard in the Bering Sea was repaired and under way again, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
Scientists searching for what is likely the world's most endangered whale came up empty-handed this summer during a one-month tour of an area in the Bering Sea where Pacific right whales like to feed.
They're pink, slippery and decidedly not cute, especially if you are a pollock fisherman in the Bering Sea pulling up a slew of unusable squid this summer.
The Alaskan coastal village of Hooper Bay is about 3,200 miles from North Korea's intercontinental missile. For some in the Bering Sea town, that's a bit too close for comfort.
Climate Change and Over Fishing Hit the Dutch Harbor and Bering Sea Fishing Industry - CNN.comIn Dutch Harbor the smell of fish wafting from the docks and the canneries is the smell of money. And lately, the town has smelled a lot less fishy.
Dive News - Scientists Discover Stinging Truths About Jellyfish Blooms in the Bering SeaA new study helps explain a cyclic increase and decrease of jellyfish populations, which transformed parts of the Bering Sea--one of the U.S.'s most productive fisheries--into veritable jellytoriums during the 1990s...
Dental Clinics, Meeting a Need With No DentistUNALAKLEET, Alaska — The dental clinic in this village on the edge of the Bering Sea looks like any other, with four chairs, a well-scrubbed floor and a waiting area filled with magazines.
Rescuer: Victim Fell From HelicopterCoast Guard Petty Officer Alfred Musgrave told a Marine panel Saturday that he tried to pull crewman, Byron Carrillo out of the dangling basket into the helicopter. He says that Carrillo was hypothermic. Also, his survival suit was very heavy as it had filled with water.
Whistleblowers at Work: Leaked E-Mails Could Sink Arctic Offshore Lease SalesThe Interior Department is scrambling to stanch the flow of internal e-mails from its own scientists that undermine the legality of its aggressive offshore oil and gas lease sales in federal Arctic waters, according to correspondence released today by Public Employees for Environ …
Bering Sea Blues: As global warming transforms the region, scientists are scrambling to study its diversity of species that depend on ice for survivalAs one of the most remote and forbidding marine habitats on the planet, the Bering Sea still holds plenty of secrets—and it could hold onto them forever.
Fish Drift from Familiar Alaska WatersThe multibillion-dollar industry of pollock fishing may be in trouble. The fish have been abandoning areas where American fishermen normally catch them and have been popping up near where the Bering Sea becomes Russian territory. Some observers cite climate change.
Alaskan man guilty of flogging seal penisesAn Alaskan man faces a possible one year's jail and a $20,000 fine after pleading guilty to one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act, viz: flogging 100 fur seal penises, aka "oosiks", to a gift shop "that intended to sell the items as an aphrodisiac".
Last year, I belatedly ran across a reality TV show called "Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Network, and I was immediately hooked. The show, now wrapping up its third season, has been a great hit for the network and has turned several crab fishing boat captains into cult heroes.
Scientists Reconstruct Prehistoric Behavior of Fur SealsA team of researchers has documented major changes in the behavior, ecology, and geographic range of the northern fur seal over the past 1,500 years using a combination of techniques from archaeology, biochemistry, and ecology.
New Land-Bridge Evidence Adds to Mystery of First AmericansThe long-gone land bridge between Asia and Alaska—a route possibly followed by the first humans to reach the Americas—flooded about 12,000 years ago, a new study suggests.
Whales move north as oceans warmAnd that is just one aspect of a massive ecological shift affecting 2 million square kilometres of the Bering Sea - one of the world's richest fisheries.
Global Warming Causing a Major Shift in Bering Sea Ecosystem.Decades of climate data have demonstrated conclusively that the Arctic ice sheet is rapidly melting away.
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