Over 100 dead puffins, mostly tufted, have been found in Saint George, Alaska.

Early sighting of snow this year.

Several ill or dead tufted and horned puffins were found on the shores of St. Paul Island.

Unusually fast flooding on the Chignik River.

During the 2012 wind storm, many of the poplars lost branches or their tops. Now leave the leaves are growing back as big as pie plates.

Decades have passed and ponds are drying up.

“They’ve been in Cordova for over 30 years. They’re just starting to be reported and sighted in other places. We have confirmed sightings in Whittier, in Girdwood, in Chenega Bay, in Eshamy Bay and one of the hatcheries out in the sound has reported them.”

Since the 2012 wind storm, the forest in Cheney Lake Park has been rapidly transforming from native cottonwoods to a variety of exotic ornamental trees.

Plant found in patch of high bush cranberries.

Biologists on Canada's western coast are bracing for the arrival of a deadly disease called white-nose syndrome in British Columbia and Yukon's bats, but the disease's impact is still unclear.

Died on beach.

Winter is near, but, it is unusually nice outside these days.

Around the state, biologists are unsure of what led to the lowest pink salmon harvest since the 1970s in a season that led Gov. Bill Walker to seek a disaster declaration from the federal government to bail out beleaguered pink fishermen. “We caught 39 million pinks this year,” said Forrest Bowers, the Commercial Fisheries Division director for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The department forecasted a harvest of 90 million fish between. Bowers said he had to comb records back to 1977 to find a year that bad.

A mysterious anthrax outbreak over the summer killed more than 2,300 reindeer and at least one child.

Special report: A huge disruption to California's coastal ecosystem is under way after several years of unusually warm ocean conditions and drought.

Unusually rainy year for Lower Kalskag this year.