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The blooms carry toxins, but scientists aren’t yet sure what impact they will have on marine mammals.

Alice Bioff said her approach comes from her background as an Inupiaq woman living in Nome. “I was surrounded by women who sewed atikluks, qaspeqs. I was around that all my life,” she said.

Researchers and federal scientists still have no definitive explanation for the cause.

Some possible causes for late budding in berries include more precipitation when flowers bloom, which reduces pollination, an overall lack of pollinators, or sometimes animals and birds eat the berries during the winter.

The 2021 Iron Dog will start in two weeks, but with an adjusted route and new COVID-19 precautions.

Some survivors think law enforcement doesn’t prioritize these kinds of crimes, especially when the victims are Alaska Native.

As of Nov. 3, sea ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas in is the lowest on record for the last five years, even with tiny bits of ice starting to form in Norton Bay and the Kotzebue Sound.

The report comes after two weeks without a case in the Norton Sound community.

A VPSO is patrolling the community to limit contact between residents.

Nome recorded 1.27 inches of rain on Sept. 14