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The top of the world saw record-beating average temperatures flashing through all three summer months.

Climate change is making life difficult for the indigenous people - and wildlife - of the Sami region.

Out of the eight species of bats in the Northwest Territories, residents are most likely to see the little brown bats.

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.

Earth’s natural cycles can’t account for the recent warming seen over the past 100 years, new research suggests.

Alaska hunters will discover a new page in the 2019-2020 hunting regulations which describes mule deer and white-tailed deer, two historically non-native species that are now moving into Alaska.

Nick Major, a martial arts instructor, died Saturday after he had a random brush with a bat on Vancouver Island in May.

Grizzly bears sightings are on the rise on Vancouver Island, and experts have a few theories as to why this is happening.

A researcher says her team couldn't believe the distance travelled.

A satellite-tracked Arctic fox stunned researchers by making a 3,500-kilometer trek across Arctic sea ice and glacier to travel from the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to Canada’s Ellesmere Island in about two and a half months. “We first did not believe it was true,” rone of the researchers, Eva Fuglei, said about the amazing run

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.

"Tularemia outbreaks in hares are reported every May and June in the Fairbanks North Star Borough," said Kimberlee Beckmen, an Alaska Department of Fish and Game veterinarian.

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.

'There's nothing good about them.' They carry disease and cause billions in damage

Rabies reported in three towns in eastern Essex County

March becomes the hundredth month in a row with temperatures above normal. "It is unique and shows how fast climate change is happening in the Arctic," says climate scientist Ketil Isaksen at the Meteorological Institute (MET).

The latest statistics on the mountain hare (or blue hare) population of Finland, for instance, show that the species' numbers are plummeting while the European (or brown) hare is thriving, especially in southern parts of the country.

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.

The 2015 to 2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world.

While most wolves prefer ungulates like moose, deer and mountain goats, the Gustavus pack has displayed a preference for sea otter.