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The Bering Strait has become vulnerable to climatic changes, trans Arctic shipping, and resource exploitation. The Obama administration's Executive Order 13754 of December 9, 2016 [1] defines a Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area that gives protection to the indigenous coastal communities that rely on the strait for subsistence hunting, and the surrounding marine ecosystem's vitality. [2]
Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea between the Alaska Peninsula and Cape Newenham on mainland Southwest Alaska. The Bering Sea ecosystem includes resources within the jurisdiction of the United States and Russia, as well as international waters in the middle of the sea (known as the "Donut Hole" [8]). The interaction between currents ...
The Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, encompassing 291,000 square kilometers, [1] is a protected area within the Bering Sea, established by President Obama on December 9, 2016, by Executive Order 13754. [2]
Warmer, ice-free conditions in the southeast Bering Sea are roughly 200 times more likely now than before humans began burning planet-warming fossil fuels. Scientists have more evidence to explain ...
Bering Sea warming, in particular, is running rampant—the area is warming up to four times faster than warming across the globe—and ice coverage in 2018 and 2019 was at times just 4 percent ...
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait is a 2019 book by Brown University historian Bathsheba Demuth, published by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] The book examines environmental and social change in the Beringia region surrounding the Bering Strait from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, focusing on the pursuits of American and Russian interests and their ...
In cooperation with the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research used those funds to support research projects in two principal areas: natural variability of the Western Arctic/Bering Sea ecosystem, and anthropogenic influences on the Western Arctic/Bering Sea ecosystem. Support for the Arctic ...
Vernetta M Nay Moberly (born December 23, 1955) is an American environmental activist who over time has gathered much information from the elders of the Iñupiat community (a group of Alaska Natives, whose traditional territory extends roughly northeast from Norton Sound in the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border between Alaska and Canada) [1] [2] [3] and ...