Veterinarians in California use tilapia skin to treat burns on bears injured during wildfires.

Many Pacific islands are famed for their palm trees, but Sakhalin is facing some of the heaviest January blizzards in living memory.

At a lab in Kodiak, researchers are working to understand whether crabs can adapt to ocean acidification.

This is not the first time this village has faced the threat of erosion and flooding, but relocating won’t be as easy as it was last time.

Rain and rising temperatures have brought warnings of extremely slippery conditions in other areas.

Washington state officials have proposed a new tack to save the Pacific Northwest's critically endangered orca population. Their idea is to boost salmon

BirdLife Finland reports that Finnish populations of the common pochardhave plummeted by 80 percent in 20 years.

Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and frozen history.

Ocean acidification threatens some of Alaska’s most lucrative crab fisheries. But there’s one ray of hope: it’s possible that crabs might be able to adapt to the changing oceans. The big question scientists are researching at Bob Foy’s lab in Kodiak is – will they have enough time?

Twice as many reindeer have been killed on the roads in northern Sweden this month compared to the same period last year.

The storm that walloped Southcentral Alaska also left about 32 inches of snow in Moose Pass and 30 in Seward.

Packed ice crystals have pushed up water levels on the Kokemäki River, soaking some buildings in Huittinen and Pori.

Four teams had scratched as of 7 p.m. Saturday because of the icy conditions, said Kuskokwim 300 race director Madelene Reichard. "It's the same thing for all of them," Reichard said. "The dogs aren't used to running on the ice, and people were wanting to keep their dogs healthy."

Winter rain makes it more difficult for the animals to feed, particularly pregnant females, researchers found.

Three people died earlier in the Netherlands in accidents caused by hurricane-strength winds.

Due to consistent above average winter temperatures, there are many known and developing open holes on the river. I was on the trail working at the Bogus Creek Checkpoint. Most of the trail had no snow cover, and the majority of the race was run on glare ice over the tundra.

Homeowner Bart Henderson headed back to Haines from Mexico after a fuel-feed line from a heating oil tank to a furnace burst and potentially leaked. “We’ve got a pretty good idea that the cause of the leak was from the hard freeze and then the warm weather,” Pikul said. “There was some frost heaving of the ground and it compromised the feed line.”

A fierce storm sweeping across northern Europe kills eight people and halts Dutch and German trains.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries faces some tough decisions this week. One of those is how to conserve dwindling king salmon stocks in a way that won’t financially cripple Southeast salmon fishermen.

Environmental and economic changes could make it easier for non-native plants and animals to gain a foothold in the North.