From Eagle River to Wasilla, people on private wells are contending with cloudy water -- and worse.

Local charities call for donations after blaze wrecks 500 homes in Alexandra

An outbreak of the most dangerous infectious disease anthrax was found in the village of Menyaylovka, Saratsky district, Odessa region.

“I wouldn’t have been on the road if there had been an avalanche warning in effect,” says a woman who fell victim to an avalanche along Flateyrarvegur in the Westfjords on Friday. The avalanche-prone road is not currently monitored, but Vegagerðin is now looking at improvements.

Now three years in a row the river is jammed, upriver from Dawson, and that leaves a big open lead of water right in front of town.

The average temperature was higher than normal in all parts of the country and in Reykjavík November was warmer than October.

Thousands of lobsters, clams, quahogs and crabs have washed up on the shore at Robinson's Island, a consequence of no sea ice and big waves.

Seismologists called the quake the most significant in the state’s largest city since 1964, in terms of how strong the ground itself shook.

At least one car was on the ramp at the time of the quake, a photo of which circulated on social media Friday morning.

Thousands of smelts were found dead during low tide in the Togiak slough. Is there an environmental cause?

Robert Prescott, of the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, believes a warming trend allowed the turtles to delay their migration south.

After a day of birding on P.E.I., an Island woman returned home to find a rare white-winged dove at her backyard feeder.

Ice conditions on the Yukon have changed since the 1980's. Now, open water is more common in spots along the river, which impacts winter travel.

And the next few days show no signs of letting up.

The discovery of red tide along Baldwin County's beaches has prompted warnings from the Alabama Department of Health, local health experts and city officials. State health officials said water samples, which were taken on Monday, show low to medium levels of the toxin releasing algal blooms from Little Lagoon Pass in Gulf Shores to Alabama Point in Orange Beach. It's concerning news for Mobile native Stephen Crigler, who brought his family down to Gulf Shores for Thanksgiving.

This was the warmest autumn on record for western Alaska. Local observer comments on how lack of sea ice is effecting fish and bird behavior.

In the industrial city of Norilsk in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, which sits above the Arctic Circle, visibility dropped to zero and buses, planes and ships were canceled or rerouted as a snowstorm raged on Tuesday, reaching speeds of 25 meters per second. The city's emergency services stayed on high alert as a holiday was declared for children and mobile heating stations were set up.

A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting countries.

Two swans are stuck in the ice at Mundy Pond in St. John’s this morning.

City officials were made aware of the situation through calls to 311 and by a pedestrian walking around the pond who flagged down a passing city