Five years after they were forced to come up with strategies to protect habitat for the boreal caribou, not a single province has met that deadline, according to a federal government progress report released today.
A leptospirosis bacteria outbreak is making sea lions sick along the Oregon Coast, so state officials are warning people and their dogs to stay away from the animals. The outbreak began in September and likely will last into December, said Jim Rice, a researcher at Oregon State University.
Mountain lion sightings have been reported in far Southeast Alaska for years, and one sighting has been confirmed.
The bear got into the facility through a door trucks use to access the building, a USPS spokeswoman said.
Increase in red voles and gray shrews, compared to the last three years.
Zoom in on this supposed image of sheep on a hillside and you'll be in for quite the surprise.
A hunter from B.C. is recovering from a bear mauling earlier this week. Conservation officers say the attack was predatory, meaning the bear wanted to eat the man.
Far from the Arctic snow and ice, in brown bear territory, the adventurous two year old is soon to take a river trip back home.
A bowhead whale beached on the remote outpost in the Arctic Ocean, and the news spread fast among the island's bears.
Boy was mauled to death, his sister managed to escape and raised alarm.
Found what seems to be a kangaroo mouse and a normal mouse
Black bear found dead along lake trail.
Staff and passengers at Nyagan airport in fear of bear patrolling the runway and trying to break into terminal.
Dozens of moose carcasses were discovered last spring in a Lapland national park, and Finland animal disease watchdog Evira has since determined that the animals died of malnutrition. The reason why they were unable to find sustenance is a mystery, as the area had relatively normal temperatures and snowfall last winter.
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.
Moose and other species have advanced north with warming temperatures. University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor of water and environmental research Ken Tape said movement of boreal species into far northern Alaska has corresponded over the last century with earlier snow-melt and river ice out.
Biologists on Canada's western coast are bracing for the arrival of a deadly disease called white-nose syndrome in British Columbia and Yukon's bats, but the disease's impact is still unclear.
A mysterious anthrax outbreak over the summer killed more than 2,300 reindeer and at least one child.
Freak warm weather followed by a freeze in winter 2013-14 caused an ice-over of pastures which led to the deaths of some 70,000 reindeer in a famine. This summer, there was an outbreak of deadly anthrax after the hottest Arctic summer on record.
Young moose eating rose hips.
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