From Greenland's ice sheets to Himalayan glaciers and the snowpacks of western North America, layers of dust and soot are darkening the color of glaciers and snowpacks, causing them to absorb more solar heat and melt more quickly, and earlier in spring

Milbert's tortoiseshell caterpillar infestation

Thawing all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trail.

Abundant herring roe, most ever seen during the low tide - Toksook Bay, Alaska, USA

Permafrost thaw and storms are drivers.

Volcanic eruption in the Aleutian's.

6-2-14 Mt Pavlov volcano eruption - King Cove, Alaska, USA

Loss of shoreline and subsistence camps.

Thousands of varied salmon species reported dead at Klawock River.

8-20-13 Arctiid moth caterpillars, Kake, Alaska, USA

Unknown caterpillar observed

8-12-13 Growth in coho salmon - Hydaburg, Alaska, USA

8-11-13 Long horned beetle - Pitkas Point, Alaska, USA

Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.

Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) butterfly caterpillar

The past couple of years there haven't been a lot to pick.

Predaceous diving beetle

When a scientist went to an uninhabited island in Nunavut to set up a research station he stumbled across something else: dozens of dead caribou.

Kebnekaise mountain in Sweden will no longer be the tallest in the country as the glacier on its highest peak melts rapidly in an unprecedented heat wave.

On Monday, Anchorage reached the 70-degree threshold for a record 14th straight day, breaking 2004's record of 13.