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Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.
Around the world, 17 countries are currently facing extremely high water stress. Climate change is making the problem worse.
Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.
These changes seem to be heralding population spikes and downturns for a number of species like walleye pollock and Pacific cod, and even more pronounced in small, fatty forage species.
According to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists, the most frequently cited causes of bee mortality were weather, starvation, poor queens and weak colonies in the fall.
Authorities say some 300,000 bee colonies died in June and July. Experts blame pesticides — specifically neonicotinoids — but also varroa mites, the loss of natural habitat and flowers, and, more recently, climate change.
Sea surface temperatures are 9 degrees higher than normal in some areas off Western Alaska.
Spring has become warmer in Norway's easternmost city. Now Vardø may lose its Arctic climate.
Colonies suffered from parasitic, disease-spreading Varroa mites. Floods and fire didn’t help.
NOAA is investigating what it’s calling “unusually large numbers” of seal deaths.
Fish and Game says tularemia is showing up early this year in snowshoe hares around the Interior and areas south of the Alaska Range. Tularemia is a bacteria that can pass to pets and people, causing serious illness.
Much goes to indicate that such toxins may cause damages to children’s central nervous system. Scientists in Tromsø, Norway have long worked to map the extent of environmental toxins in the Arctic populations, and the result is frightening.
The entirety of Southeast Alaska is in some state of drought.
Average daytime temperatures in Guatemala have risen over the past decade, while crop-damaging frosts are more common.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.
The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has a climate change adaptation plan. It wants the region to be included in the climate change discussion.
'There's nothing good about them.' They carry disease and cause billions in damage
The average temperature for the entire country was 1.2 degrees above normal in March. It is thus the twelfth month in a row that the temperature in Norway has been above normal.
Recent storms have destroyed the progress made in ice formation endangering coastal habitats and fishing practices.
Last year's drought summer resulted in halved grass crops in Eastern Norway compared to the previous year, according to recent figures from Statistics Norway. - The consequences of the drought continue to affect the daily lives of many farmers, says Lars Petter Bartnes, leader of the Norwegian Farmers' Union.
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