Arctic

The report card authors say the last seven years are collectively the warmest seven years since the start of the last century.

It’s the highest temperature recorded in Utqiagvik between Oct. 30 and April 22 in more than a century of monitoring. 

Snails and mussels are particularly important to commercially harvested fish like halibut and yellowfin sole, along with being prey for the Pacific walruses.

Numerous studies and Indigenous whalers’ reports are documenting more killer whales spending more time and making more predation attempts in far-north waters.

Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them.

Caribou and reindeer populations have been declining around the circumpolar north.