It is believed that the area was once-fertile land and a township stretching for 20 miles.

Pia Östensson, a biologist and pollen expert at Stockholm's Natural History museum, explains why there is so much aspen fluff this year and why it is not related to recent wildfires.

Starting on Wednesday, May 22, hundreds of Common Murres, an ocean-going bird native to the Pacific Coast from the Channel Islands to the tip of the Aleutians in Alaska, have been reported washed u…

One boat lost its net while at least two other fishermen say giant waves threatened to capsize their vessels as they tried to reach safe harbor.

Akiak City Administrator David Gilila says the village is in danger of becoming an island in the Kuskokwim River.

The whale is located in an inaccessible place where scientists are unable to take a necropsy.

Gray whales are dying at twice the usual rate as a brutal migration unfolds, with whales washing up on Washington state beaches, apparently starved to death.

An out-of-control wildfire burning near a town in northwestern Alberta is at the highest possible danger and expected to increase this week.

NOAA is monitoring significant numbers of gray whale deaths this spring along the Pacific coast.

Above average snowfall at the headwaters of the Kuskokwim, and early break up, led to higher than average river flows past Aniak. The river banks are eroding, threatening community infrastructure.

The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking. Rising temperatures are thawing the once-frozen earth, forming pools of water that run through the graveyard.

The Pallas's reed bunting has been sighted fewer than 10 times in Europe.

The state's water worries mirror those in B.C. Record-breaking temperatures earlier this month and a below average snowpack have led to a faster snow melt in this province.

First mosquito sighting in Kotzebue.

Lightning is unusual in a city that, according to the National Weather Service, sees fewer than two thunderstorms a year. It was the first time the power company had seen a lightning-related power outage in 15 years.

Near Nome, reports of seal pups and walrus calves hauled out on beaches are piling up at an unprecedented rate.

Thunderstorms are rare in Anchorage due to its proximity to the coast and protection by the Chugach Mountains from moist air traveling up from Southeast. Thursdays storm produced lightening that struck a power line and caused an outage, and produced nickel-sized hail in Eagle River.

A pilot first spotted the whale last week. What caused the whale’s death isn’t yet known.