New research led by U of T Mississauga geographer Igor Lehnherr provides startling evidence that remote areas in Canada's Arctic region—once thought to be beyond the reach of human impact—are responding rapidly to warming global temperatures.

“If black bears are starting to stir, brown bears could be, too,” a state Fish and Game official said.

“If black bears are starting to stir, brown bears could be, too,” a state Fish and Game official said.

If you factor in wildlife changes, it could be even more.

The cases in B.C. have been traced back to consumption of herring spawn, a treasured traditional food source for First Nations throughout Vancouver Island.

NANAIMO — Island Health and the BC Centre for Disease Control are warning anyone who's eaten herring eggs recently to stay hydrated and safely dispose of any remaining eggs.

More than 658,000 reindeer are up for vaccination in order to prevent another outbreak of the deadly bacteria infection.

After admitting a sick ringed seal from Unalaska, veterinarians at the Alaska SeaLife Center are cautiously optimistic about his chances for recovery.

The Air Force is trying to better understand the erosion bearing down on its valuable radar sites.

Researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Innsbruck have shown in a recent study that the further melting of glaciers cannot be prevented in the current century—even if all emissions were curtailed. However, due to the slow reaction of glaciers to climate change, human activity will have a massive impact beyond the 21st century. In the long run, 500 meters by car with a mid-range vehicle will cost one kilogram of glacier ice. The study has now been published in Nature Climate Change.

A rare sighting of an elusive wetland species.

Sea ice around Helsinki becomes more precarious as spring draws near.

People in southern Labrador and along Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula are being cautioned to be on the lookout for the bears, who have already begun to move north.

Many residents of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, use coal-burning stoves during the winter months when staying warm is a matter of survival. But the pollution is hazardous to their health.

Warming temperatures have caused large stones to break off the cliff at Reynisfjara beach, South Iceland.

Considerable danger of avalanches in East Iceland has led to evacuations in the town of Seyðisfjörður.

The Kuskokwim River now has its longest ice road ever, despite having the warmest winter on record.

Rising ocean levels are causing waves to break on the statues and platforms built a thousand years ago. The island risks losing its cultural heritage. Again.

Above normal than average seal strandings in the Aleutians.