Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) officials found mosquitoes that tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV) in an area south of Lake Mary Road in Flagstaff. This is the first positive WNV in mosquitoes in Coconino County this year.  No human cases have been reported in Coconino County since 2010 when two human cases were identified.

Although native to southern Alaskan waters, Pacific pomfret (Brama japonica) are not often caught by salmon fishers.

Researchers are asking the public for help in identifying a condition that has left endangered panthers in Florida with neurological damage.

This is the first photographed in BC and only the 5th ever recorded in the province.

Persistent high pressure over the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay has kept most storms well away from the lower Kenai Peninsula. At Homer, total rainfall June 1-August 16 was only 53% of normal, making this the driest since 2004. The City of Seldovia has issued a "City Water Conservation Notice" on August 20th. The notice doesn't ban any specific water use but requests residents make an effort to use less water by minimizing watering lawns and washing cars and to take shorter showers.

“It was a beautiful event that we were lucky to have survived,” Andrew Hooper said.

It is unusual to find a dead shark. And it occurred at a time when there were many other standings of marine mammals and birds.

A record number of Swedes are taking the vaccine against TBE - Tick Borne Encephalitis. But the disease is still spreading in the country.

An unidentified fungus is growing along the eroding coastal bank.

This region in the Bering Sea began to change color in early July, during roughly the same period when dead shearwaters began being reported by LEO members in coastal communities. Ocean experts suspect it's a non-toxic coccolithophore bloom. Interestingly, these kinds of blooms have occurred before in conjunction with shearwater die-offs. But this may be circumstantial.

Two popular rivers are being closed to fishing because almost no cohos are making it upstream.

"Nanwalek was in an emergency drought, we had to have water flown in for 60 households."

"The fish was easy to mold on the drying rack because the hot summer sun was not coming through the smoke."

Bears in the Far East of Russia have become extremely aggressive searching for food. Experts say the number of bear attacks on humans this year is 'unprecedented.'

"Camphor Trees typically seem healthy in this region and are invasive. Massive simultaneous failure of most branches seems unusual."

The school district plans to transport fuel from a group of 10 tanks into three new tanks expected to be placed in the Napakiak school parking lot further inland.

Residents in northeastern B.C. got quite the surprise over the weekend in the form of a large snowfall. While it's not entirely uncommon for towns in higher elevations to receive snow in August, getting a big dump is very unusual, said CBC meteorologist Brett Soderholm.

The highway remained closed north of Willow after the fire jumped the road Sunday, authorities said. The fire started Saturday afternoon when wind blew a tree onto a power line.

Fred Meyer is employing an aggressive pest-control plan after customers spotted mice in the store through Southcentral Alaska’s unusually warm summer.

Fish in a local pond may have been washed to their new location during a recent severe rain event.