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Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Morgan Krakow /
Anchorage Daily News /
March 30, 2021
A wildlife biologist believes a lynx that recently approached a young girl may have been a juvenile. The girl’s father said he’s now on higher alert after the encounter.
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Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Lex Treinen /
Alaska Public Media /
April 5, 2021
Costco customers in Anchorage have recently started sharing online reports of ravens stealing groceries from their carts and the back of their pickup trucks, and biologists say the behavior could spread around town quickly.
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Truckee, California, United States
Ryan Sabalow /
The Sacramento Bee /
March 27, 2021
Young black bears, with no fear of people, are coming down with fatal brain inflammation in Nevada and California. Could new viruses be causing the disease? State veterinarians say that in the past 12 months alone, officials have captured three other bears with the same condition.
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Gambell, Alaska, United States
James Mason /
The Nome Nugget /
April 2, 2021
Nome and the surrounding area, including St. Lawrence Island, is fighting rabies almost as hard as it is fighting COVID-19. Because of the high level of rabies infection Fish and Game requested assistance from the National Rabies Management Response Program. Their job is to manage a wildlife disease outbreak. Several technicians and a rabies biologist are in Nome reducing the number of foxes.
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Батагай, Верхоянский район, Sakha, Russia
Siberian Times /
March 30, 2021
The racing predator was seen 60km south of Batagai, north-east from republic’s capital Yakutsk.
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Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
Julie Stricker /
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner /
April 4, 2021
Scattered power outages were reported this morning, and as the wind began picking up early this afternoon, more are expected. As of 9 a.m., unofficial measurements showed more than 19 inches of snow on Old Murphy Dome Road, 14 inches in Goldstream and almost a foot in Two Rivers. The official measurement on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus was 12.4 inches.
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Chistochina, Alaska, United States
Wilson Justin and Katie Spellman /
LEO Network /
March 23, 2021
Early budding willows (genus Salix) were observed on the Chistochina Trail during temperatures of 18 above Fahrenheit. The average temperature on March 23, 2021 was 10 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature on the day in the past twenty years.
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Khuzhir, Irkutsk, Russia
Boris Slepnyov, Valeria Sukhova /
Siberian Times /
March 25, 2021
Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the ice on skates made by her father not long after World War II. She has lived on the shores of Lake Baikal all her life, where winter temperatures plummet to minus 50C.
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on Siberian Times
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