Visitors advised not to swim in lake and keep dogs on leash

This time weather experts think the blackout was caused by smoke from wildfires mixing with heavy rain clouds.

The state's Department of Environmental Services and Fish and Game announced effective Friday, Aug. 9 the ban on harvest of shellfish due to “red tide” is lifted for all species of shellfish except surf clams.The harvest closure went into effect May 9 for the Atlantic Ocean and Hampton/Seabrook Harbor in response to elevated levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, commonly known as red tide, detected in blue mussels collected from Hampton/Seabrook

Lake Hopatcong, normally buzzing with swimmers and water skiers, is filled with cyanobacteria in quantities never before recorded.

It's possible the trio’s canoe was upset by a calving, or shedding, piece of ice. Although all three were wearing life jackets, none was wearing a wetsuit to protect against the frigid water.

Authorities in Alaska are investigating the deaths of three kayakers whose bodies were found in the water of a glacier.

Several ground slides close E39 between Førde and Skei in Jølster. More than 150 people must be evacuated.

Ingar Sægrov was killed in a landslide during extreme weather and heavy rain in Jølster, Norway, in July 2019. He remains at the bottom of Jølstravatnet Lake.

Caution: Blue Green Algae has been detected in the Lower Klamath River and contact with water is not advised. Samples in the South Slough located in the Estuary of the River and near the confluence of Tulley Creek and the Klamath River recently detected low levels of toxic algae.

Some 784,931 hectares of wildfires are raging on permafrost zones including the Arctic in Yakutia - officially Sakha Republic - and the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, causing possibly irreparable damage to the tundra. Other infernos are sweeping through boreal forests which are known as the lungs of the Northern Hemisphere.

The Department of Health and Social Services reports a person experienced PSP symptoms after eating a clam harvested near Perryville on the Alaska Peninsula.

Temperatures pass 39C in Belgium and the Netherlands, as a Eurostar train breaks down in the heat.

"I am worried that unless we do something, the algae will kill the lake, or at least our enjoyment of it."

Another Metro Vancouver beach has been closed to swimmers following concerns about bacteria.

We observed more than 50 otherwise healthy (not spawned out) dead fish including pink and chum salmon and white fish

Unidentified urban garden spider. Without a photo or a specimen, confirmation of the species is impossible.

Our operations and maintenance staff do their best to insure all mechanical systems are functioning properly. But several factors limited their ability to respond, including significant smoke from the Swan Lake wildfire.

The Capital Regional District recently issued an alert sheet for Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum).

Smoke and soot from central Alaska wildfires have afflicted the subarctic city of Fairbanks with some of the world's worst air pollution in recent days, forcing many residents indoors and prompting one hospital to set up a "clean air shelter."

Leech found on duck near Selawik.