“Smoke concentrations will be such that they could impact public health at times, according to an advisory issued by the state Division of Air Quality.

A girl from Paso Robles, California, was bit by a sea lion in Pismo Beach on Friday near the pier. The animal that attacked likely had domoic acid poisoning, and will be treated at the Marine Mammal Center.

Potentially harmful blue-green algae has increased in lakes over the past week.

Drought levels have been raised already for parts of the province and Dave Campbell, with the B.C. River Forecast Centre, says the current forecast points to drought conditions provincewide in the coming weeks.

We did not see a single sea star in the Kachemak-side tide pools, and boulders we visit each year all looked a little vacant, with a lot of empty, critter-free space.

There are over one hundred and forty landslides along the Denali Park road, the 92 mile road through Denali National Park and Preserve. None are more threatening than the Pretty Rocks Landslide at Polychrome Pass.

Not seen in at least my 15 years in Yellowknife.

Regurgitation from a bald eagle contains plastic pieces.

Kettle ponds in Denali National Park contain less water this spring than in previous years, due to low snowfall and permafrost thaw. Shrubs are replacing grasses as the lakes dry.

Salal bushes observed to be very dry and dying in British Columbia.

the Beaufort Picnic Area appears to consist of stream-origin alluvial cobbles, pebbles, and perhaps sand, and so not well consolidated, thus perhaps making these trees relatively vulnerable to wind. The snapped-off trees, however, indicate the unusually high intensity of this particular windstorm.

The snow cover in Anchorage and the Chugach is disappearing very quickly. Go out and get it while you can!

Avalanche monitors say danger remains high in Turnagain Pass, Girdwood and Portage.

Weather is relatively consistent around this time of year, but this season, storms have come in quickly.

Jeffrey Cheng, 33, died in the slide. One of his friends managed to hold on to a tree as waves of avalanche debris washed over his head. The third member of their group wasn’t caught.

Warm ocean temperatures are keeping ice thin, which become easily moved by the wind. This ice movement separates commercial and subsistence crabbers from their gear, and have led to the loss of both crabbing and mining gear.

An agency in Colorado that tracks avalanches hiked its danger level to "extreme" for a swath of the state, the highest level on its scale.

The snow began falling in early February and hardly let up until the last day of the month, setting records at local ski resorts and causing havoc across the