As Bering Sea Ice Vanishes, Upheaval Hits a Remote Island
ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska - This tiny island in the middle of the Bering Sea had recently completed its longest winter stretch in recorded history with above-freezing temperatures - 343 consecutive hours, or 14 days - when Aaron Lestenkof drove out to look at Sea Lion Neck.
It was another warm February day. He saw no sea ice; scant snow on the ground.
Lestenkof is one of the sentinels on the island, a small team with the Aleut tribe who monitors changes to the environment across these 43 square miles of windswept...
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