7-14-14 Abundant bees & berries - King Cove, Alaska, USA

Early blueberries in Jakolof Bay, Alaska

In just seven years, as much as one-third of the mountain-birch forest in the North Calotte region was severely defoliated by two moth species. Researchers now have a better understanding of what happened.

Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.

The past couple of years there haven't been a lot to pick.

7-25-13 Invasive dandelion - Levelock, Alaska, USA

7-24-13 More salmon berries - Nondalton, Alaska, USA

Residents were amazed to see lightning actually arching down to the ground.

High spruce pollen levels causing eye, respiratory irrigation and nose bleeds.

There has been an outbreak in Fairbanks of the amber-marked birch leaf miner (Profenusa thomsoni), an insect that came to North America in the early 1900s and arrived in Fairbanks by about 2002.

7-19-12 Great gardening - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Non-sting wasp (cynipoidea) larva

More leaf miners this year, less blue berry blossoms, but more cranberry.

The outlook for blueberries in Southcentral Alaska this year is bleak, scientists say. The reason: Two species of moth have damaged berry patches, as well as native deciduous trees, from the southern Kenai Peninsula to Mat-Su.

STERLING, Alaska — Spent today tramping around the boggy depths of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, which is about a three-hour drive south of Anchorage. Berg The group went there to see h…

Twenty-five students in the Pribilof Island Marine Science Camp have discovered the second-known population of a new species.