Scientists with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans say late spawning for capelin had a significant impact on numbers.

A flock of European Starlings sighted at a mid-town Anchorage building.

Very early for a hummingbird, especially in a non-urban area without feeders.

One of the most intense sounds emitted by animals on Earth is the echolocation click of the sperm whale.  When Yukusam the 13-14 m lone male sperm whale swam through the Salish Sea last month, he was recorded on a suite of hydrophones including the Orcasound Lab live hydrophone in Haro Strait and simultaneously the…

A new study estimates that climate impacts to public infrastructure in Alaska will total about $5 billion by century's end.

The storm dropped more than a foot of snow overnight in some places, making for a messy Thursday morning commute. And the nor’easter isn’t gone yet.

Coyotes have killed at least three dogs in Seward, and police are trying to trap the predators before they get more.

Environmental science and conservation news

The death of an elk in eastern Finland has been blamed on chronic wasting disease, which has never been seen in the country before.

Northern freshwater lakes are turning brown as permafrost thaws and introduces more organic carbon into the water, according to a new study published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

In just a few short years, the Northern California waters stretching from Sonoma to Southern Humboldt have undergone a dramatic transformation, with stretches stripped bare of their once varied marine life in a phenomenon known as "urchin barren."

For a March evening in the Interior Alaska village of Nikolai, Tuesday was warm.

Researchers say they've come up with a way to better predict severe storms and protect infrastructure from damage caused by increasing temperatures in Western Canada.

The archipelagos in the northern Barents Sea and Kara Sea were up to 11 centigrades warmer than average last winter.

Sweden and its neighbouring countries are not meeting targets to save the Baltic Sea, and one of the people involved in coordinating the work tells us why it is so hard to stop problems lilke fertilizer run-off.

There are plenty of seals in Unalaska, but ringed seals -- who make their homes on the ice -- are rare.

A massive landslide that was first discovered last fall blocked a waterway west of the Mackenzie River. Scientists say it's something that could happen more often in the territory as the climate warms up.

Weather Service expects chilly weather to continue through March.

Monitors picked up a small explosion and ash cloud from Mount Cleveland volcano on Friday morning.

From Massachusetts to Virginia, the East Coast was pounded by a storm that threatened to break records. Nearly two million people lost power.