Last week, social media across Western Alaska lit up as residents posted photos and videos of open water where, normally, there's ice.

As global temperatures rise, the lives of countless plants and animals are changing in response. That includes king penguins, which a new study predicts will see profound, climate-driven changes in their numbers and the location of their breeding grounds over the next century.

In the depths of the long night that cloaks the Arctic in frigid darkness for three months each winter, a surprising patch of open water appeared, just to the north of Greenland.

I have never found live shrimp before in King Cove while subsisting for Chiton's not sure if it is unusual or significant.

For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.

Rough seas and moving sea ice.

It's about the size of a dinner plate and has a rubbery texture, was told it’s a sea cucumber but I’m not sure.

A sperm whale has been confirmed on Vancouver Island's eastern coast for the first time since 1984.

Researchers say the concentration of plastic waste in the European Arctic is now comparable or even higher than in more urban and populated areas.

Barbados’ most unwanted visitor has returned to its shores. The dreaded Sargassum seaweed is back. Since 2015 an influx of the unwelcome brown micro-algae has proven to be a major headache for the tourism industry. The seaweed, which invaded a number of beaches in Barbados, caused an awful stench, as the vegetable matter rotted after …

The Finnish researcher says the source of southern Finland's unusually slippery roads and messy snow this winter is very likely due to warm air from the sea.

While industry has had to adapt to changes, many locals are still struggling to find a new normal amidst the shifting seasons.

At a lab in Kodiak, researchers are working to understand whether crabs can adapt to ocean acidification.

Ocean acidification threatens some of Alaska’s most lucrative crab fisheries. But there’s one ray of hope: it’s possible that crabs might be able to adapt to the changing oceans. The big question scientists are researching at Bob Foy’s lab in Kodiak is – will they have enough time?

In 2014, a warm water system — known as the Blob — wreaked havoc in the waters of the Gulf of Alaska. The relationship between extreme weather events and climate change is complicated. But scientists are getting closer to figuring out how the two are linked.

The «Baltic Winter» spent only about five and a half days on its voyage across the Northern Sea Route. Last year’s ice conditions in the area were favorable, Russian transport authorities say.

Favorable ice conditions meant that the ship »Baltic Winter» spent only about five and a half days on its voyage across the Northern Sea Route.

We've had so much wind this winter, on the 15th of January, the winds were warm!!!!!!

We will have more wacky weather in 2018 as the world continues to warm.