The waters of Mjøsa and the Gudbrandsdalslågen River in Innlandet, Norway, have turned an unusually intense blue-green color this summer due to glacial meltwater carrying fine rock particles.

Grong and Namsskogan in Trøndelag have logged 13 straight days above 30 °C, breaking the 43-year Nesbyen record, amid a nationwide heatwave.

During week 29 (July 14–20, 2025), Luleå recorded 128 hours of sunshine—the highest weekly total in Sweden since measurements began—surpassing the previous record by four hours.

A fish harvester photographed a pitch-black iceberg over 100 km off Labrador in mid-May, prompting social media buzz; a Memorial University professor suggests the ice may be 1,000 to 100,000 years old, its dark hue from ancient sediment or volcanic/meteorite dust.

The State Department of Fish and Game has closed king salmon fishing on the Kenai River and surrounding Cook Inlet areas for the third consecutive year due to alarmingly low forecast returns.

An unusually low snowfall has left green grass visible on Anchorage's hillside, making for an atypical non-white Christmas in Alaska.

Some have dubbed the creature Anubis, referring to the ancient Egyptian god usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. 

"Grayling guts with unknown pearl like cyst or tapeworm. Never seen this before in our grayling."