Mills in the heart of Canada's timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees.

Typically these storms remain off the coast of Vancouver Island and we only see the frontal systems move ashore.

After frost comes spring, but when it happens in mid-November plants get confused. That is not good news.

From Belize to Barbados, tourist beaches have been swamped by huge tides of foul-smelling sargassum – and climate change could make the problem worse

Littoinen Lake made headlines in 2017 when it was chemically treated because it was overwhelmed with phosphorous and algae. Now there is a new problem.

Many mature Sitka spruce trees dying off from French Beach south into Sooke along waterfront. Many dead partway up and needles thin.

Scientists search for options as coastal farms surrender to salt water

Large bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) bed near the 1st channel marker, which used to attract sea otters, has disappeared.

During fall time, we only hand pick when the blackberries turn brown. As I was picking I saw this wild iris, like it bloomed just a few days ago. I was very awed to see this flower in October.

The Tongass Forest in southeast Alaska, a temperate rain forest, is experiencing record-low precipitation and severe drought conditions, impacting community hydroelectricity production.

Weather conditions including drought are effecting vegetation in Punjab and other areas of Pakistan.

The latest tally of beetle kill shows more than 550,000 acres of forest with dead spruce from the ongoing infestation this year alone, much of it in Mat-Su.

Delphiniums (Delphinium glaucum) are still growing late in to the season.

Fireweed blooming in mid-late September after other plants have gone to seed.

Spruce branch girdling causing discoloration in tree.

Discolored spruce (Picea sitchensis) needles

Farmers in Edmonton and into northern Alberta, still have plenty of crop out on the fields and the early arrival of winter conditions does not bode well for harvest season.

Prickly rose plant is blooming when others have gone to hips.