Shellfish in the Puget Sound tested positive for the prescription opioid oxycodone, and this was not the only drug found by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Clearwater, Golden, Williams Lake, Malahat a few of the cities that broke records Wednesday

‘Thousands’ perish amid calls for a state of emergency in the region, with fears anthrax vaccine is a cause of death.

Smelt caught in Bethel with fungal infection previously found in the Norton Sound region.

The remains of a possible seal carcass tangled in netting may have come into contact postmortem, "ghost fishing" as a potential cause.

Questions raised about the impacts of vehicle exhaust and soot on snow deposition as well as dirt and dust from roads.

At Cold Bay, snow was reported on five days during the month, the most for any May since 2013.

Spectacular sandstorm hits Tyumen as high winds uproot trees, blow over bus shelters, and damage cars.

By this time of year, boats are usually plying the ice-free Ob, but in 2018, while the winter covering the river has begun to move, it has not cleared.

In the last 15 years, polar bear hunters in eastern Greenland have had to adapt their hunting practices because of climate change,

Military help is on the way to B.C. communities ravaged by floods, as rivers rise and more people are forced out of their homes around the province.

Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska's Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback.

Thick ice and heavy spring floods combines to cause severe flooding in Yakutia. Specialists numbering around 100 have been moved from Baikal Search and Rescue Unit (Irkutsk region) and the Siberian Rescue Centre (Novosibirsk region) have been moved the the stricken region.

The advisory is just a precaution at this point and was issued because the water appears muddier than usual, the release said. No one has reported getting sick from the water.

The first right whale of the season has been spotted in Canadian waters after an unprecedented winter in which not a single calf was spotted.

As many allergy-sufferers across Finland may have already suspected, birch pollen levels were very high on Wednesday, according to the University of Turku.

Its only mid-May but the mini heatwave has left large areas of Sweden bone-dry, leading to a ban on public fires in several areas.