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However the phenomenon is not only seen in people who suffer from pollen allergies, Finnish experts noted.

The study shows the destruction of the kelp forest was related to an explosion in the population of purple sea urchin, which eats it, and two warm water events that lasted from 2014 to 2016.

As old-growth logging in B.C. continues, conservation organization creates detailed map showing original forests in B.C. have all but disappeared.

Barnehage, sjukeheim, rådhus, legesenter, barneskule, vass- og avløpssystem, eit bustadfelt og ei av hovudfartsårene inn til Gjerdrum er sett ut av spel.

It doesn't look like Tromsø will get snow for a while.

Talik is ground that is thawed year-round. Now some Alaska scientists have found that were there are tall shrubs above the ground, there is likely to be talik below ground.

11,500 years ago, Norway experienced one of the fastest meltdowns the world has seen. Now scientists fear the same thing is happening elsewhere.

Some biologists think the trend is related to the reduced hunting pressure from Outside hunters this year.

A lack of wild bees and managed honeybees is limiting pollination and yields for certain crops on farms in British Columbia and across the United States, a collective of researchers has found.

Nine waterways on P.E.I. have experienced anoxic events so far this year, something experts say is unusual. 

Scientists have said the algae is spreading faster than anything they have seen in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Towering crags and peaks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains have been getting steadily greener over the past century, according to a new study.

Bark beetle experts say a recent cold snap has likely killed some spruce beetle infestations in northern B.C.

University of Rhode Island student stumbled upon the first appearance in Rhode Island of what has come to be called sea potatoes (Colpomenia peregrina), an invasive seaweed native to the coast of Korea and Japan that grows on top of other seaweeds.

BRUNY ISLAND, TASMANIA (WASHINGTON POST) - Even before the ocean caught fever and reached temperatures no one had ever seen, Australia's ancient giant kelp was cooked.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

North American coyotes don’t live in South America, but new research suggests that could change, should deforestation in Central America continue.

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

The tree line is moving up mountains at a rate of half a meter a year, say researchers from Krasnoyarsk Science Centre, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Similar to what has happened in B.C., tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins have chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California.

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