Within the last year, they have measured twenty to one hundred feet of erosion along different sections of their coast line.

"All it would take is one or two big storms and these houses you see behind me would be gravely at risk."

'Attention!!! Huge polar bear up running after birds behind Tasilik street!!!' Christine Boucher-Wight posted on the Iqaluit Public Service Announcement Facebook page.

There’s a giant hole in Antarctica and scientists aren’t sure why. The hole, which was detected about a month ago, is roughly 30,000 square miles or the size of the state of Maine. It's the largest hole spotted in the Weddell Sea since the 1970s, scientists say.

Government scientists have found an island in the Beaufort Sea that is shedding as much as 40 metres of ground each summer.

About a year ago, Tununak opened a $19 million, state-of-the-art airport, but shifting permafrost is buckling the runway.

On June 19, 2015, a slow-moving low-pressure system with spectacular thunderstorms that produced little rain began making its way through Alaska. By the time the storms finally petered out about a week later, 61,000 bolts of lightning had been unleashed on a boreal forest in the state. No one had ever seen anything quite like it, not even in 2004, when 8,500 lightning strikes were recorded in a single day.

Tununak Airport near Bethel is facing a catastrophic problem, as airlines are refusing to land there due to the village's shifting permafrost.

The bear got into the facility through a door trucks use to access the building, a USPS spokeswoman said.

Increase in red voles and gray shrews, compared to the last three years.

The wind known as the Diablo is picking up again, the air is dry, there is no rain in sight and the killer wildfires that have scorched the wine country of Northern California remain almost completely uncontained. Officials warned Wednesday that some of the big fires could merge. Amid these grim bulletins, the huge utility company PG&E acknowledged that the extreme winds late Sunday and early Monday had knocked trees into power lines in conditions conducive to wildfires.

Dillingham farmer Mark Hermann said he's heard from gardeners around the state who are dealing with an influx of slugs. The slimy critters can add a lot of extra work to farming.

Mass evacuations were ordered in what is being called one of the most destructive fire emergencies in the state’s history.

Waters were expected to reach their highest levels Monday night and into Tuesday.

A colourful bird native to the mountains of Central and South America has been spotted in Hopewell Hill, N.B., prompting bird lovers to flock to the area to try to catch a glimpse.

Melting permafrost, which some attribute to climate changes, is creating huge craters in Siberia. The craters are appearing as layers of ice melt, and larg

That’s after the bird apparently lost its way to its usual wintering-over grounds far away to the South.

Egret near Inuvik observed by numerous folks in Inuvik.

Cleanup and recovery from the recent storm that battered the North Slope coastline may carry a price tag exceeding $10 million.