The Working Group on Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Events has closed both UMEs. What caused those events remains a mystery.

At this time of year, there has never before been such a complicated ice condition around Russia’s offshore Arctic oil platform «Prirazlomnaya».

Never seen it this late in June

Evidence from Dominican Republic of the larger regional weed event.

For the first time this year, anthrax has been reported in cattle in South Dakota.  State Veterinarian Dr. Dustin Oedekoven has confirmed that 8 cows died from a herd of 87 unvaccinated cattle in Clark County. The Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory at SDSU confirmed the disease from samples submitted over the weekend. Anthrax …

Two centimetres had fallen in parts of Newfoundland

More of Utah Lake is infested with cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, which can contain toxins harmful to people and animals.

A powerful and sudden storm left the city almost totally without electricity and with water supply shortages.

A species of seaweed has been washing up on beaches across the Caribbean and South Florida.

-

A respiratory pathogen once thought to only affect sheep and goats has been found in Alaska caribou and moose. The bacterium, called mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, or "Movi," has also been implicated in the death of an emaciated caribou from the Fortymile herd last month.

In May and June, dead birds, mostly murres, have been washing up on beaches on St. Lawrence Island, Shishmaref and east Norton Sound.

Michael Soltis’ death is the second fatal bear attack in the Anchorage municipality in two summers.

For the second year in a row, dead seabirds are washing up on beaches throughout the region by the hundreds. The birds appear to be starving, but scientists say the story is more complicated.

The first heat wave of the season went out with a bang across the province

Rare observation of sea otter in Haro Strait, perhaps first since 2014.

Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) found in the bay near Platinum, slightly north of usual species range.

Heavy mats of seaweed are washing up on South Florida beaches, creating thick barriers to the ocean.