Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past few years, the snow crab population near Alaska has been dwindling. And researchers now think they know why. On ...

Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm water ...

When a young Sealaska intern walking a beach in July 2022 found the first evidence of European green crab presence in Alaska – a discarded shell on a beach on Annette Island in the state’s far ...

The European green crab, as pictured here, is an invasive species that threatens native fish populations. The invasive crabs were first discovered in Alaska in 2022 at Annette Island, and their ...

Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

The beleaguered snow crab of the Bering Sea may have one strength that could help their population endure rapidly changing marine conditions: an apparent resilience to ocean acidification. Research by ...

The plummeting population of snow crabs off of Alaska’s shores shocked fishermen and scientists alike in 2022. Now, scientists believe they have more evidence for a bleak explanation about the species ...

Over the past few years, the snow crab population near Alaska has been dwindling. And researchers now think they know why. On Thursday, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...