Winter tick has been found in over 50 percent of the mule deer examined by wildlife officials in the Whitehorse area and is also found on moose, caribou, and elk in the Yukon

More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in central Norway.

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.

Melted permafrost that exposed an infected reindeer carcass is believed to have resulted in the cases that killed a 12-year-boy and sickened eight others.

Land Mammal

An enzyme protects squirrels during and after hibernation, and something similar could help people whose hearts shut down, a new study finds.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT It looks like it’ll be a ratty season for Kodiak. The rodents are running rampant this year, at least according to one local pest cont

Bats sighted in Goodnews

Swimming moose dies

Unusual mouse species

Sockeye wildfire at mile post 77 of the George Parks Highway near Willow.

Sheep, primarily ewes and their lambs, have died in great numbers this past lambing-season. The cause has yet to be determined, and farms all around Iceland appear to be affected.

Environment Yukon's carnivore biologist is enthused about cougar sightings near Whitehorse, as tracks suggest the big cats are breeding in the territory.

Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.

When a scientist went to an uninhabited island in Nunavut to set up a research station he stumbled across something else: dozens of dead caribou.

8-24-12 Lynx in high Arctic - Barrow, Alaska, USA

So far approximately 340 bison have died from an anthrax outbreak in the Fort Providence area of the N.W.T.

Mountain lion sighting on the Chandalar River

Interior residents are reporting varieties of wildlife that are new to the region, including mule deer, mountain lions and whitetail deer.