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.

A four-day heatwave across western Europe that killed seven people began to ease slightly on Sunday, as temperature alerts were cut back and wildfires slowly brought under control.

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.

Smoke from wildfires in Alaska could cause very unhealthy air quality conditions and low visibility over the weekend in Anchorage, the state's largest city, officials said.

Little to no apparent management posed possible ecological and environmental health concerns.