Dead salmon and whitefish found along the banks of the Yukon River.

People living in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta felt something unusual this past holiday weekend: a heat wave. Temperatures crept close to 90 degrees in many parts of the region.

Unidentified urban garden spider. Without a photo or a specimen, confirmation of the species is impossible.

A burying beetle was seen for the first time by an observer in Tuntutuliak.

Way out side of typical range.

Our operations and maintenance staff do their best to insure all mechanical systems are functioning properly. But several factors limited their ability to respond, including significant smoke from the Swan Lake wildfire.

The Capital Regional District recently issued an alert sheet for Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum).

Smoke and soot from central Alaska wildfires have afflicted the subarctic city of Fairbanks with some of the world's worst air pollution in recent days, forcing many residents indoors and prompting one hospital to set up a "clean air shelter."

Leech found on duck near Selawik.

A hazy shade of summer.

An unprecedented belt of brown algae stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. The largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, has been dubbed the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

The city is so parched and hot that even a cigarette tossed into a pile of fluffy cottonwood fiber could ignite a fire.

Unusually high abundance of rusty tussock moth caterpillars in the Nome area.

Due to 'extreme fire danger,' all open fires have been banned across much of Yukon, effective immediately.

It was also during the week where a number of dead fish started to occur along the riverine segment.

Hundreds of dead sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) found along the shores of White Sands Beach.

"Our temperatures reached 83 degrees, and seem to be getting hotter! We think that maybe the warm water has something to do with the humpy die-off?"

Village wildlife observers worry that the unusual warmth of oceans off Alaska is causing problems throughout the ecosystem.

The science director for Cook Inletkeeper, a nonprofit organization that monitors the health of Cook Inlet, wrote a paper two years ago on what salmon streams might be like in the future with climate change.