Spotted seals in some of the most remote marine areas around Alaska are consuming significant amounts of microplastics in their diets, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks–led study. The ...

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Northern fur seals have been declining since the 1950s, per Alaska Public Media, and researchers suspect plastic pollution plays a role. "We have this decline in northern fur seals, and is it due ...

Alaska natives, who have hunted Iliamna Lake seals for centuries, describe the seals as fatter, larger and darker in color than their saltwater neighbors, with a unique fur pattern. Given Iliamna Lake ...

In Alaska today, subsistence continues to be an ... as he prepared to lead the seal harvest there. "The subsistence fur seal harvest is all about carrying on the culture within our community ...

fur seal and sea otter pelts they brought showed this land to be a fur trader's paradise. Russian documents from the time indicate that Bering's explorations of Alaska were not made for the purely ...