4-23-13 Cold arrival for Canada geese - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

4-22-13 wolf roaming city - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

4-21-13 Unseasonable chum salmon - St. Mary's, Alaska, USA

4-21-13 Early brown bear - Pedro Bay, Alaska, USA

Local hunter reported that he had caught a spotted seal that he thought was sick.

Batogoo Dorj is a nomad in southern Mongolia’s Bayankhongor Region who makes his living raising cashmere goats. Each spring, Dorj can shear about 300 grams of the valuable, downy wool from each of his 350 goats. Those voracious and sharp-hoofed animals are contributing to the desertification and climate change that is reducing Mongolia’s available grazing land.

A mystery bloom brightens up local beach.

An Alaska scientist challenges the so-called “unexplained” lesions and deaths observed among Arctic sea life in 2011 and 2012.

3-13-13 Buggy ptarmigan - Noatak, Alaska, USA

Severe storms wreak havoc to a Bering Sea community; the following weather conditions contributed to flooding, disrupting transportation routes, electrical transformers and seepage into local water wells.

3-5-13 Changing sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

2-2-13 Many wolf sightings - Togiak, Alaska, USA

Black bears are not normally seen during this time of the year.

St. Marys residents concerned about possible interactions

1-17-13 Winter brown bear - St Marys, Alaska, USA

There is a lot of overflow and flooding happening in Anchorage area streams, as a result of the recent record rain fall.

The avalanche north of Girdwood affected three lanes of traffic for several hours. Delays are expected Tuesday morning as crews attempt to thwart additional slides.

Much of the state became one heck of an ice rink over the weekend, with temperatures spiking into the 40s in much of Southcentral Alaska and thawing reported as far north as Fairbanks.

A rare sighting to observe a brown bear in January.