Yukon subsistence fishermen face challenges with gear restrictions, closures, and reports of salmon potentially infected with ichthyophonus, impacting their summer fishing activities.

Unusual swallow species

Jellyfish bloom

Searing temperatures, which have been as high as 113 degrees, were below 100 on Thursday, but a sense of panic and crisis persisted in the city.

Wind from the sea and pre-monsoon rains cooled southern Pakistan on Wednesday, likely marking the end of a scorching heat wave that killed at least 838 people, authorities said.

Elodea, an aggressive invasive plant, was discovered this month in the lake used by hundreds of floatplanes, raising fears that it will be spread to multiple sites within flying reach.

New insect species typically arrive in Finland via Russia’s Karelian Isthmus. Entomologists say that the number of species in the

Air Quality will vary between Good and Unhealthy depending on wind flow and proximity to the fire.-Southcentral areas near–Willow, Wasilla, Palmer, Butte, Anchorage, and south over the Kenai Peninsula to include Cooper Landing, Kenai Keys and Skilak Lake areas.

White-winged crossbill

Deformed halibut (Hippoglossus stenoloepis)

There were lightning strike-caused fires at Paul's Creek and Coffee Creek north of King Salmon, AK.

6/17/15 Drought - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Not a single humpback whale was seen in the Salish Sea for nearly a hundred years

Smokey air as a result of wildfires to the north and south of Anchorage.

Unusual fish catch

Sockeye wildfire at mile post 77 of the George Parks Highway near Willow.

There seems to be an unbelievable bumper crop of spruce cones both in trees and on lawns this spring. Their abundance has been quite a topic of conversation, at least in my circles. It is coneucopia!

Mushy meat texture, and rotten smell found in sockeye salmon and pacific halibut.

Sheep, primarily ewes and their lambs, have died in great numbers this past lambing-season. The cause has yet to be determined, and farms all around Iceland appear to be affected.