A family in Alaska watched in horror as their beloved cabin (pictured) that was built in the 1940s was swept away by the Matanuska River over the Fourth of July weekend.

In other parts of the West, evacuation orders were lifted in Colorado and Montana towns threatened by wildfires

British Columbia has declared a state of emergency and thousands have been evacuated.

A number of plants are growing oddly "out of season".

There’s a new, probably non-native, invasive species in town, just discovered in late June. It’s a disease-causing fungus (Gemmamyces piceae) that afflicts spruce buds, often killing them altogether but sometimes just causing deformed buds and twigs.

A biologist peers into his collection jar to find an example of the green caterpillars that have been dining on willow bushes, making brown batches on the landscape in and about Nome.

Scientists are divided about the impact of climate change on this particular break in Antarctica's ice shelf.

Temperature records were broken around the province with Vernon breaking an 111-year-old record

The village of Anvik along the west bank of the Yukon River has an increase in defoliation associated with caterpillar numbers.

Of the 89 wildfires burning across Alaska right now, several are in the northern part of the state, either in the Arctic or near its southern boundary.

Locals blame Poolbeg incinerator for infestation in Sandymount and Ringsend

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

Pyrosomes were first seen on the Oregon coast in 2014 and every year since. Recently they have been reported in Washington, BC and Alaska. These weird organisms that resemble large pink thimbles, could signal really big changes in the marine ecosystem.

Locals say they saw flames and smoke as a major bubble of methane blasted below the surface and created another sinkhole in the Russian Arctic peninsula.

Taxpayers are staring at a $4.5-million-plus bill to repair everything from eroded trails to disappearing beaches to flooding streets.

Wildfires burned through thousands of acres of Great Plains farm and ranch land in the 1980s. Today, wildfires are likely to char millions of acres. The

Large numbers of salmon straying from hatcheries in Southeast Alaska, as well as a low river flow, helped create lethal environments for wild salmon, according to a new report.

They're a parasite many people don't think live in Alaska, but Fish and Game says ticks are here and their numbers are on the rise.

Unidentified beetle near Tongass Highway