A dog-sled team ran into standing water after the onset of warm conditions across the northern territory caused rapid ice melt.

The northwest coastal city of Oulu was one of several that had over 30-degree Celsius temperatures on Friday.

Because of the increased travel distance, only families with larger boats were able to participate in the hunt and bring back enough to make the trip cost effective. With a heavier load in the boat, one family ran out of gas trying to get home and had to be rescued.

Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.

The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking. Rising temperatures are thawing the once-frozen earth, forming pools of water that run through the graveyard.

A growing die off of native Western Red Cedar trees is becoming visible right across East Vancouver Island now. Experts say its a symptom of climate change and as Skye Ryan reports, its changing the forests we've come to know across this region.

Kettle ponds in Denali National Park contain less water this spring than in previous years, due to low snowfall and permafrost thaw. Shrubs are replacing grasses as the lakes dry.

One of B.C.'s most abundant plants is in trouble: patches of hardy salal plants are turning up brown, crispy and dying.

The sun when direct was intense, definitely not April and not May...more like the month of June.

Permafrost preserved the ‘oldest blood in the world’ boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life.

In the earliest breakup since the contest began in 1917, the Nenana Ice Classic Tripod fell early this morning.

The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope

Frigid north winds blow down from the Arctic Ocean, freeze saltwater and push sea ice south. The ice normally prevents waves from forming and locks onto beaches, walling off villages. But not this year.

Warm temperatures are rapidly melting snow and creating ice, which creates difficult conditions for dog mushers. Migratory birds are arriving early, and a mosquito emerged months early. Small owls dead around the Goldstream Valley that looked unusually thin.

The tragedy came after several days of dire warnings about the dangers of river travel due to an unusually early warm-up. Search and rescuers crawled onto weak ice, open water all around, to help retrieve the survivors.

Warmer than normal temperatures in Anchorage may be causing willows (genus Salix) to bud early.

Willows budding about a month early 30 miles above the Arctic Circle.

One of the main winter highways in the Northwest Territories turned into a swamp this week following unseasonably high temperatures.

Avalanche monitors say danger remains high in Turnagain Pass, Girdwood and Portage.

The winter resupply road between Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories' three working diamond mines has succumbed to this week's warm weather.