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State watching rabies attacks, new strain potential issue
Topsham, Maine, United States
26 Apr 2021
Press Herald
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Pandemic, restaurant slowdown blamed for rats in Portland neighborhoods
Portland, Maine, United States
27 Sep 2020
Press Herald
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In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving
Kiruna, Norrbotten, Sweden
9 Dec 2019
Associated Press
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Home break-ins by black bears surge in Connecticut suburbs
Canton, Connecticut, United States
25 Sep 2018
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Squirrel population surges in Northeast, as does roadkill
Cape Neddick, Maine, United States
4 Sep 2018
Press Herald
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Alaska biologists research mystery of declining caribou herd
Kotzebue, Alaska, United States
29 Jan 2017
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Respiratory Pathogen "Movi" Documented in Additional Species in Alaska is Also Implicated in Alaska Caribou Death
Alaska, United States
15 Jun 2018
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Anchorage, Alaska, United States
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Bjurholm, Västerbotten, Sweden
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Coyotes sightings in St. John's and Mount Pearl Sunday morning
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Musk ox killed in Kotzebue after it posed a threat to residents
Kotzebue, Alaska, United States
21 Aug 2023
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Two Banff National Park wolf packs likely decimated by trapping
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22 Feb 2019
The Narwhal
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Takikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
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Why do Calgarians keep seeing bobcats?
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
28 Sep 2019
The Star
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Nathrop, Colorado, United States
22 Mar 2023
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How Climate Change Canceled the Grizzly Salmon Run
Kodiak, Alaska, United States
21 Aug 2017
The Atlantic
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Hokkaido city deploys 'monster wolf' robot to scare bears away from residential areas
Takikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
5 Nov 2020
The Mainichi
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France launches tick alert app in frantic bid to map Lyme disease explosion as blight moves North
17 Jul 2017
The Telegraph
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All hell breaks loose as the tundra thaws
Yamal Pensula, Russia
20 Jul 2017
the Guardian
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Polar bears late June visits to St. Anthony unusual | The Telegram
Saint Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
3 Jul 2018
The Telegram
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Record Arctic heat drives reindeer into cool tunnels
Finnmark, Norway
2 Aug 2018
The Local
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Beaver dam outburst floods prompt effort to protect Richardson Highway
Paxson, Alaska, United States
15 Jul 2021
Anchorage Daily News
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‘A sad day’: two more B.C. mountain caribou herds now locally extinct
Salmo, British Columbia, Canada
18 Jan 2019
The Narwhal
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Black bear injures Juneau man after following him through open door
Juneau, Alaska, United States
5 Aug 2020
Anchorage Daily News
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Houston man injured in moose trampling outside his home
Houston, Alaska, United States
8 Mar 2024
Anchorage Daily News
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Black bear shot dead while trying to get into tent near Portage campgrounds
Portage Creek, Alaska, United States
26 Jun 2024
Anchorage Daily News
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Caribou arrive in the Northwest Arctic region
Kotzebue, Alaska, United States
22 Nov 2023
Anchorage Daily News
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‘It was so unfazed by me’: Woman recounts slobber-covered cat’s encounter with wolverine
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
10 Nov 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Brown bear breaks into Alaska Zoo, kills alpaca named Caesar
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
23 Sep 2020
Anchorage Daily News
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Western Arctic Caribou Herd shrank more in 2022, hurting Northwest Arctic subsistence hunters
Selawik, Alaska, United States
8 Nov 2022
Anchorage Daily News
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New Research Sparks Health Canada Warning Deer Plague Might Infect Humans
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
24 Jun 2017
The Tyee
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Mystery hairless elk leave scientists puzzled
Neiden, Norway
11 May 2015
The Local
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River otters attack, injure family dog in Anchorage park
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
14 Oct 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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A lynx, a toddler and a bizarre encounter in an Anchorage Hillside driveway
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
30 Mar 2021
Anchorage Daily News
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Kotzebue, Alaska, United States
28 Dec 2023
Anchorage Daily News
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Snowmachiner watches wild dogs take down musk ox in Western Alaska
Toksook Bay, Alaska, United States
22 Mar 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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State wildlife officials trying to revive Southwest Alaska caribou killed almost 100 brown bears in less than a month
Dillingham, Alaska, United States
11 Jun 2023
Anchorage Daily News
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Trash and a shortage of wild foods are creating a ‘perfect storm’ of bear trouble in Alaska cities
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
22 Sep 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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Southwest Alaska village ‘on edge’ after fox and dog test positive for rabies
Marshall, Alaska, United States
9 Jun 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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ADF&G dispatches rabid moose roaming through Teller
Teller, Alaska, United States
9 Jun 2023
The Nome Nugget
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First the rabbits disappeared. Now Seward’s coyotes are killing dogs.
Seward, Alaska, United States
8 Mar 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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An Anthrax Outbreak in Siberia Kills a 12-Year-Old Boy and Sickens Eight
Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia
2 Aug 2016
The Atlantic
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Anchorage animal shelter pauses dog adoptions and surrenders due to highly contagious virus
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
30 Mar 2023
Anchorage Daily News
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Rabies outbreak worries health officials
Nome, Alaska, United States
5 May 2023
The Nome Nugget
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Cows at two Texas dairy farms have bird flu, another blow to Cattle Country following wildfires
Lubbock, Texas, United States
27 Mar 2024
The Texas Tribune
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A coyote attracts attention in Anchorage
23 Jan 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Man mauled by bear off Richardson Highway near Gulkana in Southcentral Alaska
Gulkana, Alaska, United States
18 May 2021
Anchorage Daily News
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Shooting of bear highlights ‘infestation’ in Cordova after poor salmon returns
Cordova, Alaska, United States
10 Sep 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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Man mauled by bear while backcountry skiing in Southeast Alaska
Haines, Alaska, United States
8 Feb 2021
Anchorage Daily News
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River otter attacks 9-year-old boy at East Anchorage pond
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
5 Sep 2021
Anchorage Daily News
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Man killed, member of search party injured in Eagle River bear attacks
Eagle River, Alaska, United States
21 Jun 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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A rat was found dead on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. Here’s why that’s a big deal.
Saint Paul, Alaska, United States
2 Jul 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Musk ox attacks and injures pet dog
Nome, Alaska, United States
15 Dec 2022
The Nome Nugget
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Mysterious disease killing young California bears in Tahoe. One symptom: fearlessness
Truckee, California, United States
27 Mar 2021
The Sacramento Bee
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Kodiak rancher says bears have killed 30 head of cattle this year
Kodiak, Alaska, United States
22 Oct 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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Hunter killed by bear in Wrangell-St. Elias died in ‘surprise attack’ while field-dressing moose, officials say
Wrangall St. Elias National Park, Alaska, United States
24 Sep 2020
Anchorage Daily News
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Guwahati: Team to study jumbo death due to anthrax
14 Dec 2020
The Times of India
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Wasilla store contends with ‘large-scale’ rodent problem
Wasilla, Alaska, United States
18 Aug 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Record-warm Arctic summer did not bring joy to wildlife
Khatanga, Krasnoyarskiy, Russia
21 Aug 2020
The Independent Barents Observer
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Wild Boars Appear in Moscow Parks, Officials Warn
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
6 Jul 2020
The Moscow Times
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Nome’s Curtis Worland died after musk ox attack
Nome, Alaska, United States
14 Dec 2022
The Nome Nugget
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Wild Animals Roam Russian Cities During Quarantine
Russia
19 May 2020
The Moscow Times
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Alaska’s feline Bigfoot? Mountain lion sightings reported in Delta Junction
Delta Junction, Alaska, United States
9 Nov 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Homer man survives bear attack
Homer, Alaska, United States
6 Nov 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Nome and region is in the midst of a rabies epidemic
Gambell, Alaska, United States
2 Apr 2021
The Nome Nugget
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Black bear wandering around Kincaid Park in the middle of winter? Here’s why.
Kinkaid Park
1 Feb 2019
Anchorage Daily News
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Black bears are waking up in Anchorage. Here’s how to get your yard and home ready.
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
27 Mar 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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Poaching: Almost 90 elephants dead in biggest ever slaughter in Africa
3 Sep 2018
The South African
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Well-Preserved Cave Bear Discovered in Russia’s Melting Arctic Permafrost
Lyakhovsky Islands
16 Sep 2020
The Moscow Times
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Mongolia Quarantines Russian Border Region Over Bubonic Plague Suspicion
Khovd, Hovd, Mongolia
2 Jul 2020
The Moscow Times
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In the Alaska Arctic, more rain may mean fewer musk oxen
Wrangel Island
19 Jan 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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In Russian tundra tragedy, up to 80,000 reindeer might have starved to death
Yamal Penninsula
3 Mar 2021
The Independent Barents Observer
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Second year in row, big numbers of wild reindeer calves are found dead along banks of great river Khatanga
Khatanga river, Krasnoyarskiy, Russia
6 Aug 2021
The Independent Barents Observer
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Coast Guard rescues man after being pounced, stalked by grizzly
Nome, Alaska, United States
22 Jul 2021
The Nome Nugget
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Black bears are waking up in Anchorage. Here’s how to get your yard and home ready.
27 Mar 2018
Anchorage Daily News
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Coyotes are everywhere, even in Alaska
College, Alaska, United States
12 Mar 2016
Anchorage Daily News
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Mass vaccination against anthrax continues on Yamal tundra
Салехард, Ямало-Ненецкий АО, Russia
22 Mar 2018
The Independent Barents Observer
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Starvation death looms as huge amount of snow piles up over icy crust
Sápmi
22 Mar 2020
The Independent Barents Observer
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Lost but happy eating fish: the polar bear that strayed 700 km too far south
Kolyma River Bank, ENE 150 km of Srednekolymsk, Russia
29 Sep 2017
The Siberian Times
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Bacteria outbreak strikes sea lions on Oregon Coast leading to warning for people and their pets
Oregon Coast, United States
27 Oct 2017
The Register-Guard
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Rare white grizzly bear spotted in Alberta’s Banff National Park
Banff, Alberta, Canada
12 Jun 2020
The Globe and Mail
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Scientists have unlocked 1 secret to Arctic ground squirrels deep-freeze - and that could be a big deal for humans.
Alaska, United States
26 Jun 2016
Anchorage Daily News
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Saiga Antelopes Are Struck Again by a Plague in Central Asia
Ховд, Hovd, Mongolia
20 Dec 2017
The Washington Post
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Miners hunting for metals to battery cars threaten Sámi reindeer herder's homeland
9 Jul 2020
The Independent Barents Observer
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Fur loss, oozing sores observed in Arctic Alaska polar bears
Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States
6 Apr 2012
Anchorage Daily News
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Hungry, exhausted, only half their normal weight: Tragedy for black bears
Khabarovsk, Region Russia
27 Mar 2017
The Siberian Times
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In Greenland’s northernmost village, a melting Arctic threatens the age-old hunt
Qaanaaq, Greenland
29 Apr 2017
The Washington Post
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Siberia's Mild Winter Wakes Badger Cubs From Hibernation
Irkutsk, Irkutsk, Russia
11 Feb 2020
The Moscow Times
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Wild Animals Reclaim San Francisco and LA After Cities Empty Over COVID-19
San Francisco, California, United States
22 Mar 2020
The Daily Beast
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First red squirrel documented in Nome
Nome, Alaska, United States
7 Jun 2019
The Nome Nugget
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Fire May Be the Only Remedy for a Plague Killing Deer and Elk
Rocky Mountains, United States
26 Jun 2017
The New York Times
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Plague Is Found in New Mexico. Again.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
27 Jun 2017
The New York Times
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On Arctic island, a reindeer tragedy
Колгуевский сельсовет, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
4 May 2016
The Independent Barents Observer
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Blog: Can environmental diplomacy save Arctic languages?
Naryan-Mar, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
13 Dec 2017
Eye on the Arctic
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More than 800,000 reindeer vaccinated against anthrax
Yamal Peninsula, Russia
8 Aug 2017
The Independent Barents Observer
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The reindeer island that disappeared
Bugrino, Russia
15 May 2017
The Independent Barents Observer
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Alaska musk oxen found frozen in ice
Shishmaref, Alaska, United States
22 Mar 2011
Anchorage Daily News
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An opossum’s arrival in Homer spurs capture efforts, memes and a campaign to #FreeGrubby
Homer, Alaska, United States
Anchorage Daily News
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3rd and 4th known cases of ‘Alaskapox’ — both mild — were recently diagnosed in the Fairbanks area
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
Anchorage Daily News
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Heavy snow in Interior Alaska this winter has bison hanging out on plowed roads and digging up farmland
Delta Junction, Alaska, United States
Anchorage Daily News
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