6-19-13 Extreme temperature Bethel, Alaska, USA

6-18-13 Extreme heat - Koyukuk, Alaska, USA

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced. This year they may have a case.

6-6-13 Bald eagle with facial abnormality. King Salmon, Alaska, USA

Rabbit Creek jumped its banks Friday morning on the Anchorage Hillside, washing over a bridge and prompting police to knock on doors asking people inside to evacuate.

The Anchorage Police Department is warning parents to be cautious after three separate incidents in a week involving toddler-aged children falling out of windows opened in the warm weather.

High spruce pollen levels causing eye, respiratory irrigation and nose bleeds.

6-10-13 Strange bug - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

6-8-13 Low water level - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

6-5-13 Risky ice for whaling - Barrow, Alaska, USA

6-3-13 Erosion disrupts swallows - Evansville, Alaska, USA

6-2-13 Low number of birds - Golovin, Alaska, USA

Potential problem for local trees, berry bushes and other plants.

At Moses Point, Northeast of Elim, we found a dead beluga whale.

8-24-12 Lynx in high Arctic - Barrow, Alaska, USA

Our concern has to do with the impact and number of dead whales that might have on our subsistence lifestyle. It is unusual to find so many dead whales.

This summer has been one of the rainiest Ulaanbaatar has ever experienced, leaving behind puddles of water that result in cracked and deteriorated roads.

There has been an outbreak in Fairbanks of the amber-marked birch leaf miner (Profenusa thomsoni), an insect that came to North America in the early 1900s and arrived in Fairbanks by about 2002.

Several sightings of dead baby belugas were reported on the shores of the community and in the area over the past few days.