Two extreme weather events in 2006 and 2013 caused mass starvation among the reindeer herds, and researchers for the first time have linked these extreme weather events in the coastal mainland in northwest Russia with sea ice loss in the adjoining Barents and Kara seas.

Resident becomes sick after consuming oysters and wonders what is being done to prevent future outbreaks of V parahaemolyticus, this new climate related illness in Alaska.

Commercial and Subsistence Harvest

Russian officials have said the death of a 12-year-old boy, a member of a reindeer-herding family from the Yamal tundra 1,300 miles north of Moscow, was the first fatality in Siberia linked to the pathogen since 1941. Twenty others have been diagnosed with anthrax.

Abundant berry harvest this year in southcentral Alaska

Climate change is effecting the people of the Solomon Islands in many ways. Sea level rise is a major driver.

Birch leaves bud early.

Warm temperatures drive emergence of early willow buds, pollen and honey bee activity.