Sand-filled Super Sacks, seen on Aug. 4, 2022, are piled along the eroding coastal bluff in the core area of Utqiagvik, the nation's northernmost community. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) ...

NOAA Fisheries Alaska region, hit hard by staffing losses, helps oversee the harvests off Alaska, which produce about half the fish caught in U.S. waters. Here, a trawl net full of pollock — the ...

Is it coral? A sponge? An egg sac, perhaps? Or the beginning of an “X-Files” episode? These ideas all arose in recorded commentary from scientists aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – To better understand how climate change may impact Buffalo and New York State in the years to come, it makes sense to study a part of the country where those effects are already ...

Trump administration job cuts in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will result in less scientific information that is needed to set and oversee Alaska seafood harvests, agency ...

NOAA is partnering with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to get underwater footage of the entangled whale in Iliuliuk Bay. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB) The Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network is ...

Six killer whales caught in trawl net gear this year in waters off Alaska died as a result of their entanglement, while a seventh whale was seriously injured by this gear, according to a NOAA ...

Environmentalists are suing NOAA for failing to issue an Endangered Species Act listing decision for Gulf of Alaska chinook salmon within one year of receiving a petition to protect the species. In a ...

We discuss what a reduction in service at NOAA could mean for Alaska.

The agency study found women are harassed twice as often as men, while less than half of all incidents are reported. Between 22 and 38 percent of NOAA observers who board fishing boats in Alaska’s ...