Warmer waters likely enabled a phytoplankton bloom to occur much later in the year than normal off the coast of Alaska and British Columbia.
Polar bears have been rummaging through science camps at the top of Greenland's ice sheet far inland, where they were never expected, and Polar bears are coming into communities more often these days, says Kristin Laidre, a marine biologist at the University of Washington’s Polar Science Center, and an authority on polar bear populations in Greenland. “It’s happening all over the Arctic, and it’s something that’s only going to be an increasing problem as we continue to lose sea ice,” she says.
DFO science recommends closing salmon rivers to retention angling for remainder of season.
A small glacier melt has swollen Barsuwat Nullah in the Ishkoman valley of Ghizer district, Gilgit-Baltistan, creating an artificial lake and blocking the flow of the Immit River. Water has submerged more than 30 houses, cultivated land, a link road and cattle farms.
Extensive droughts in Norway have led the country to turn to Iceland for much-needed hay.
Weather authorities and residents are getting used to responding to glacial floods in the Mendenhall Valley.
Slow sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) runs in the Aleutians potentially linked to warming ocean temperatures.
While the airborne ants may be a nuisance, Moscow City Hall’s environmental protection department said they are not dangerous.
As the fish disappear, native peoples are looking for solutions lest they lose a way of life too.
Sweden worst hit as hot, dry summer sparks unusual number of fires, with at least 11 in the far north.
A species commonly referred to as “red tide” has been spotted around B.C. coastal waters over the past month.
As the chart below shows, there’s no let up until early August when the temperatures could start to fall back toward more normal summer levels. Even in Finnish Lapland, the home of Santa, a new heat record of 33.4 degrees Celsius (92 Fahrenheit) was reached on Wednesday.
Doctors urge ministers to act as 1,320 killed by asthma in England and Wales last year
The tick is not native to the U.S., but was found in several locations in Westchester County.
New report suggests 53 deaths in Montreal alone are linked to elevated temperatures in early July.
An intense heat dome has swelled over Scandinavia, spurring some of the region's hottest weather ever recorded.
Billie Shraffenberger is a longtime resident of Port Heiden. This is the first time she has caught a fish like the one she found in her subsistence salmon net this summer.
The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada's High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely.
New research published in PLOS ONE this week demonstrates dramatic positive benefits for native trees following rat removal at Palmyra Atoll, a magnificent National Wildlife Refuge and natural research laboratory located about 1000 miles south of Hawaii. For five native tree species, including Pisonia grandis, fewer than 150 seedlings were counted in the presence of rats, and more than 7700 seedlings were counted five years after rats were removed.
The highly toxic death cap mushroom, responsible for the death of a Victoria toddler in 2016, has already been found growing in Greater Victoria, much earlier than expected.
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