This has been a great year for the mushrooms

9-5-13 Caribou delayed - Kiana, Alaska, USA

The blueberries are so ripe now that the best time to pick those are late morning while they are chilled down and the leaves are not so moist, otherwise they fall easily or squish in your fingers.

Thousands of varied salmon species reported dead at Klawock River.

8-20-13 Arctiid moth caterpillars, Kake, Alaska, USA

Unknown caterpillar observed

8-12-13 Growth in coho salmon - Hydaburg, Alaska, USA

8-11-13 Long horned beetle - Pitkas Point, Alaska, USA

Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.

Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) butterfly caterpillar

The past couple of years there haven't been a lot to pick.

Predaceous diving beetle

When a scientist went to an uninhabited island in Nunavut to set up a research station he stumbled across something else: dozens of dead caribou.

Kebnekaise mountain in Sweden will no longer be the tallest in the country as the glacier on its highest peak melts rapidly in an unprecedented heat wave.

On Monday, Anchorage reached the 70-degree threshold for a record 14th straight day, breaking 2004's record of 13.

7-26-13 Tadpole shrimp at swimming hole

7-25-13 Invasive dandelion - Levelock, Alaska, USA

7-24-13 More salmon berries - Nondalton, Alaska, USA

7-23-13 Horntail wood wasp - Selawik, Alaska,

7-22-13 Heat illness - Nondalton, Alaska, USA