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Hunters say grizzly bears are showing up in growing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea.

As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along with their habitat, leaving them “functionally extinct.”

The Mulchatna herd was not at the peak numbers it once had decades ago. Over-hunting, migration changes and wolf predation could be leading causes of decline in herd.

The islands were first noticed by a student engineer who had observed the unidentified land masses in satellite images

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?

Caribou hunters in Game Management Unit 13 will have an additional 10 days of hunting this month.

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