The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute fascinated the world when it released a video of an unusual species of "ghost shark" in its natural, deep-sea habitat off our own Central Coast—the first time the species has ever been seen alive. These recently published observations also established a range extension for the species into the Northern Hemisphere.

Drifting throngs of pyrosomes, jelly-like, glowing organisms native to tropical seas have invaded Pacific coastal waters from Southern California to the Gulf of Alaska this year, baffling researchers and frustrating fishing crews.

Visitors to Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland could be lucky enough to meet with the spectacle of up to 20 humpback whales currently sojourning there.

Female resident killed in Novosibirsk by falling tree as freak weather continues to grip Siberia.

Across a growing swath of North America, these animals are dying from a mysterious disorder called chronic wasting disease. It’s caused not by a virus or bacterium, but a deformed protein called a prion.

Orca whales appear to be killing great white sharks and eating their livers and, in some cases, their hearts.

Farmers that "sugar" are frustrated with the short Spring sugaring season and are looking into alternate ways to collect the sap.

Found Pipefish

This year we have very few apples that are fully pollinated. We are building bee houses next to our garden in hopes that we can bring the bees back and next year.

Extinct in the UK, and on the retreat in western Europe and Scandinavia, the species if prolific this summer in Tomsk and Novosibirsk.

Chronic wasting disease long thought not to affect human health.

Is climate change reducing the quantity and quality of Alaska's Dall sheep habitat? That's the hypothesis being tested by two researchers.

Residents who have long depended on chinook salmon to fill drying racks and smokehouses are worried about their food for next winter.

Spotted a rat at the Kodiak Airport while doing intertidal surveys.

Savia Shamee is warning Northerners who travel to pay attention to what they might inadvertently be bringing home.

For the third day in a row, Phoenix has broken a daily high temperature record.

Authorities have warned residents to watch out for mosquito bites and clean out pet bowls as the Aedes aegypti species breeds in stagnant water.

The state is currently mapping the potential risk for landslides in Sitka. This time next year, the Sitka Assembly will be presented with a community-wide map. Listen now