“You could take your sailboat and sail from Dillingham all the way to Little Diomede and never see much more than an ice cube.

Storms battered the southern Bering Sea and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta last month. February storms aren’t unusual, but the amount of rain and flooding is. The combination caused a lot of damage for two communities in the region.

Wales lost shorefast ice early in the season. Ice along the shore has been crushed and broken. This is a very unusual event for Wales as many of our hunters rely on great ice conditions for whale and other sea mammal catch for food.

Warm ocean temperatures are keeping ice thin, which become easily moved by the wind. This ice movement separates commercial and subsistence crabbers from their gear, and have led to the loss of both crabbing and mining gear.

Usually, in March, the Bering Sea ice is reaching its thickest extent. But from the beach in Unalakleet, the full horizon is blue ocean water, punctuated infrequently by lone icebergs.

The Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences are reporting cause of death for one.

In Yellowknife, the territorial capital, temperatures climbed above zero over the weekend, breaking a record high on Sunday with a temperature of 3 C.

The NWT broke a symbolic temperature barrier as a heatwave continued. There were warnings over ice roads and spoiled meat, and questions about climate change.

A late start means the community of just over 130 must rely more heavily on air transport, which adds to the cost of goods brought in town.

Warm air temperatures have melted the snow, leaving the soil without the insulation that snowcover usually provides.

The tragedy came after several days of dire warnings about the dangers of river travel due to an unusually early warm-up. Search and rescuers crawled onto weak ice, open water all around, to help retrieve the survivors.

The warmest springtime temperature of the year so far is 14.1 degrees Celsius, and fires are popping up around the country.

Popular hunting spots, such as Frobisher's Farthest, Pink Lady Island and Ward Inlet should be avoided, says the chair of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association.

The season’s first puffins arrived on Grímsey island—the only part of Iceland to cross the Arctic Circle—a few days ago and the birds are generally arriving in Iceland significantly earlier each year than they used to.

The closures of the campgrounds, facing the threat of falling trees, likely will last through summer, the state parks division said.

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One wildlife expert says seeing more than 2,000 trumpeter swans at the sanctuary is unusual, but on Saturday there were nearly 3,000 counted.

A sharp decline in chestnut trees caused by a parasitic fungus in Russia's southern Krasnodar region is threatening the area's honey production, according to local beekeepers and scientists.

Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.

The wind is causing trouble in some of the areas affected by wildfires and now more people are having to evacuate their homes.

Approximately 700 dead mottled sea stars (Evasterias troscheli) found with appendages intact, which indicate that mortality event may be related to stormy weather.

A fire chief in the south-west said firefighters were called to several fires a day in recent days, saying that all were caused by people who ignored warnings.

The cold and wet hunters built a fire to keep warm until Alaska Army National Guard rescuers arrived hours later.

A species rarely seen in the Seward area.

Alvin Williams was reported missing on May 2. His body was found Sunday, troopers said.

Queens are usually out and about at this time of year feeding up on nectar and preparing to nest for the summer. Things are disappointingly quiet this spring, and last summer’s endless rain is the likely reason.

The rehabilitation center in Seward doesn’t usually get bearded seals, which live much farther north.

Cries to urgently call state of emergency in Irkutsk region as it chokes in smoke.

The worst-hit areas appear to be established neighborhoods with older spruce trees, especially in Turnagain and Spenard.

The Cowichan River is lower than it was in August last year, after the long extreme heat and drought. There might not be enough water in the river for newly-hatched salmon to swim to the ocean.

This catch in a Tatitlek herring net places a school of shiner surfperch about 700 km north of their normal range.

A growing die off of native Western Red Cedar trees is becoming visible right across East Vancouver Island now. Experts say its a symptom of climate change and as Skye Ryan reports, its changing the forests we've come to know across this region.

Near Nome, reports of seal pups and walrus calves hauled out on beaches are piling up at an unprecedented rate.

Pia Östensson, a biologist and pollen expert at Stockholm's Natural History museum, explains why there is so much aspen fluff this year and why it is not related to recent wildfires.

Starting on Wednesday, May 22, hundreds of Common Murres, an ocean-going bird native to the Pacific Coast from the Channel Islands to the tip of the Aleutians in Alaska, have been reported washed u…

The exact species is not known. Part of the carcass has ballooned with gas, a common occurrence with beached whales.

About 70 gray whales have been spotted dead so far this year along the West Coast from California to Alaska, the most in almost 20 years. Many of them appeared malnourished, according to NOAA officials.