Svafar Gylfason spotted the year’s first puffin while fishing at sea near Grímsey island, North Iceland last weekend. He says the beloved bird’s appearance is a week earlier than it’s been in the past.

The tragedy came after several days of dire warnings about the dangers of river travel due to an unusually early warm-up. Search and rescuers crawled onto weak ice, open water all around, to help retrieve the survivors.

Two four-wheelers carrying five men leaving Bethel broke through needle ice on the upper end of Church Slough on Sunday night. Two of the men died, while three others were treated for hypothermia in Bethel.

Warm air temperatures have melted the snow, leaving the soil without the insulation that snowcover usually provides.

Spring has come about a month early. Is the mating season for our state bird, the Willow Ptarmigan, early as well?

The snow cover in Anchorage and the Chugach is disappearing very quickly. Go out and get it while you can!

Warmer than normal temperatures in Anchorage may be causing willows (genus Salix) to bud early.

"Looked normal at first then we started to butcher it found some unusual stuff on the insides."

Officials have confirmed a tornado touched down Friday afternoon in Eastern El Paso County. It was spotted on Curtis Road between Highway 24 and Highway 94.

The western coast line of India is prone to oil pollution. Marine tar deposition is heaviest during early monsoons or monsoons months.

Scientists confirm loss of ‘Pearl’ island, while schoolchildren using satellite maps identify one of the new icy Russian isles.

There seems to be a large red fox population in the region around Nuiqsut, Alaska. When I last traveled there for work, I counted 5 red fox during a 1.5 hour-long car ride.

Willows budding about a month early 30 miles above the Arctic Circle.

Patrick Jones, wildlife biologist for the state Department of Fish and Game, said he has heard of dogs killing moose, caribou and a days-old musk ox calf, but nothing like this attack.

One of the main winter highways in the Northwest Territories turned into a swamp this week following unseasonably high temperatures.

Avalanche monitors say danger remains high in Turnagain Pass, Girdwood and Portage.

A golden plover, traditionally believed to announce the arrival of spring in Iceland, was spotted in Stokkseyri on March 28, a little later than usual. They spends the winter as far south as North Africa, returning north to breed.

Weather is relatively consistent around this time of year, but this season, storms have come in quickly.

The winter resupply road between Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories' three working diamond mines has succumbed to this week's warm weather.