When glaciers covered larger parts of Iceland, there was less volcanic activity in the country, a new study has found.

The North Slope Borough will have access to help with recovery efforts for the autumn storm that pummeled the coastline earlier this year, causing more than a million dollars worth of damage.

Beavers live in every province of Canada, every U.S. state and into northern Mexico. Range maps now need to be redrawn to include areas north of treeline in Alaska and Canada.

The recent storm brought water levels up to the lagoon bank by town. Along the Chukchi Coast, storm surge and tides were expected to raise sea levels four to six feet above the normal high tide line, the weather service noted.

Visiting Vardø near Norway’s maritime border to Russia, the ministers will learn about Arctic sea traffic safety management.

Smart started finding dead fish in his trap near Dull Lake about two or three weeks ago. Now there are hundreds and hundreds of them.Some local officials suspect water pollution killed the fish, but state officials offered an alternative explanation. According to the Fish and Game representative a local fisherman forgot to check a blackfish trap and may have dumped the dead fish in Dull Lake.

The school site is about six miles northeast of town. If constructed, it would serve as the terminus of the evacuation route and as a modern shelter capable of housing the entire community.

Nunavut experienced some 'strange' weather in the past few days, causing shipping containers to fly through one community and muddy puddles in another.

A recent storm in Norton Sound has increased coastal erosion affecting community transportation.

Siberians are used to going to school and work in such cold, but it is the winds - not far short of hurricane force - which led the authorities in the district, larger than Austria or Portugal, to shut schools.

The past couple years have been warmer than normal contributing to where the river is still flowing ice and with some of the plants still green.

An advocacy group has put a price tag on the heaving roads and leaning buildings ubiquitous to the Northwest Territories.

The National Weather Service forecast wind gusts up to 50 mph in some places and whiteout conditions.

Vitamin D deficiencies have long been a concern in high latitudes because sunlight — which stimulates its production in the body — is scarce in winter months.

Walruses were found washed up on the beaches from Cape Espenberg to Shishmaref and further west. Samples taken from the intestines of four walrus all had moderate to high levels of saxitoxin.

Northern Finland was illuminated by a blazing fireball on Thursday night, which experts said was either a meteor or space trash.

More than a thousand dead geese that washed up on the shore near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, last August appear to have died of natural causes, including toxicity caused by drinking salt water.

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The declaration gives the far-north community of Utqiagvik access to state money to help repair damaged infrastructure like roads.