The disruptions represent a huge but largely hidden toll of the pandemic, which has slashed services available to patients and inflicted a major economic blow on hospitals and health care workers.
The National Transportation Safety Board also is investigating the sinking.
John Lawler, one of two surviving Scandies Rose crew members, details what it took to survive a sinking that left him and Dean Gribble Jr. adrift in 20-foot seas for four hours.
Alaska’s Arctic landscape is under assault from a warming climate, and it’s happening a lot faster than anticipated.
The tally includes a nearly fivefold increase in ice-seal carcasses spotted on shore, along with strandings of emaciated gray whales.
Researchers now are uncertain when and to what extent the ice may return, and have scrambled to better understand the consequences of back-to-back years of its loss.
The Coast Guard report, issued Sunday, blames the crab boat’s owner and captain for the 2017 disaster that unfolded on winter seas after ice built up on the hull and gear. “The crew had very little time, if any, to react,” investigators wrote.
Authorities moved protesters from a bridge and from the Willamette River on Thursday after they temporarily prevented a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving dry dock and joining an Arctic oil-drilling operation.
Authorities forced protesters in kayaks from a river Thursday in Portland, Oregon, where the demonstrators were trying to stop a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving dry dock and joining an Arctic oil drilling operation.
In 2001, a remote-operated camera on the bottom of the Bering Sea captured ghostly images of the sunken Arctic Rose fishing vessel, including footage of a narrow, dark splotch along the hull. Could this be a clue to what led to the worst loss of life in the U.S. fishing industry in the past half-century?
To make trawlers try to avoid halibut, they are required to dump any of the fish they catch overboard. As a result, over the past decade they have jettisoned an estimated 82 million pounds of dead or dying halibut.
The Seattle protest against Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig ended peacefully Monday afternoon as protesters vacated gates they had sought to block.
