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More porcupine sightings have been reported in Yellowknife this year compared to previous years. What should you do if your furry friend meets a porcupine?
The number of moon jellyfish in Alaska waters has increased. Warm ocean temperatures and plentiful food in the form of zooplankton have contributed to the increased sightings
Out of the eight species of bats in the Northwest Territories, residents are most likely to see the little brown bats.
One theory is the pinks were traveling somewhere else to spawn, and taking a longer than usual route to avoid warming water.
Somewhere between the size of a sewer rat and a beaver, with a tail resembling that of an opossum and protruding, nacho cheese-colored teeth, the nutria is both impressively unattractive and highly destructive.
From California to Alaska, animals born during the infamous Blob are coming of age.
Grizzly bears sightings are on the rise on Vancouver Island, and experts have a few theories as to why this is happening.
Mexico has spent US$17 million to remove over a half-million tons of sargassum seaweed from its Caribbean beaches, and the problem doesn't seem likely to end any time soon.
The glowing algae is suffocating sea life.
Environmentalists often decry the loss of species diversity in rivers that have been dammed. But while some species lose when we meddle with rivers, others win, sometimes in dramatic and ways.
From African waters to China and back again, over half the fish on Nigerian tables is imported
Sargassum is infesting Mexico’s coastline. Researchers are scrambling to stop an ecological crisis, and maybe even make something good of it.
'There's nothing good about them.' They carry disease and cause billions in damage
The 2015 to 2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world.
The survey started in 1971 as a review of commercially important fish like cod and halibut, but has grown into an annual scientific assessment of all sea life hauled up from the deep.
A new study has documented unexpected consequences following the decline of great white sharks from an area off South Africa. The study found that the disappearance of great whites has led to the emergence of sevengill sharks, a top predator from a different habitat. A living fossil, sevengill sharks closely resemble relatives from the Jurassic period, unique for having seven gills instead of the typical five in most other sharks.
Fifty percent of Saimaa ringed seal pups born between the years of 2014-2017 entered the world in a snowdrift constructed by volunteers.
Thriving communities of red algae are doing something nefarious to the world's ice sheets: melting them more quickly.
Scientists say the threat from sargassum is as serious as rising sea levels and hurricanes.
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