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Sea surface temperatures are 9 degrees higher than normal in some areas off Western Alaska.

Akiak lost a mile-long stretch of riverbank to erosion last month. Six houses are now within 100 feet of the riverbank and need to be moved as soon as possible, but some people don’t want to move.

Spring has become warmer in Norway's easternmost city. Now Vardø may lose its Arctic climate.

In recent decades, Norway has seen a clear increase in the number of days that are warmer than normal. Here you can check the development 42 locations in the country.

The latest update put the Swan Lake fire’s size at 23,530 acres.

So far, this year's summer may not give associations to climate change, but for the past 30 years, summer has actually been a full 12 days longer in Oslo.

Colonies suffered from parasitic, disease-spreading Varroa mites. Floods and fire didn’t help.

Since January 1, 2019, elevated gray whale strandings have occurred along the west coast of North America from Mexico through Alaska. This event has been declared an Unusual Mortality Event (UME).

A rare whale skull discovered by an Inuit hunter in Greenland has been confirmed by a Canadian scientist to be the hybrid calf of a beluga father and a narwhal mother — otherwise known as a narluga.

Tick borne encephalitis jabs are included in the national vaccine programme only in the municipality of Pargas.

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A ten-year study of Chukchi Polar Bears, conducted from 2008 to 2018, found more bears than expected — and healthy ones, too. That’s despite sea ice loss in the Bering and Chukchi Seas.

In Western Alaska, accelerating erosion is forcing several villages to consider moving. In Quinhagak, a village on the Bering Sea, erosion is threatening the sewer lagoon and the building that houses its washeteria and health clinic.

The ‘persistent and widespread decline’ of the province’s official tree is due to drier, California-like summer droughts of two to three months.

Haines is experiencing one of its warmest, driest springs on record. Conditions in northern Southeast have not yet reached drought level, but low

As government officials look for money for a study, university professors working with students say there’s plenty of data available — and little time to lose.

NOAA is investigating what it’s calling “unusually large numbers” of seal deaths.

The glowing algae is suffocating sea life.

The Homer Spit’s future as an iconic tourist attraction is in danger of washing away. Erosion along the spit’s sea walls is not a new problem. City officials are working with state and federal agencies to find a lasting solution.

DFO documents reveal treatment failures and inability to protect migrating salmon.