The sea is our garden for food and other things.

There were 231 days between the first and last measurable snow fall in the Anchorage region this year. Temperatures have also been significantly below average.

5-21-13 Volcanic ash fall - Sand Point, Alaska, USA

5-30-13 Flooding Kobuk River - Kobuk, Alaska, USA

We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.

5-15-13 Spruce aphid infestation Kake, Alaska, USA

It's not common to see animals of any kind, including moose, in the community of Pitkas Point.

5-1-13 PSP levels rising - Old Harbor, Alaska, USA

4-23-13 Cold arrival for Canada geese - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

4-22-13 wolf roaming city - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

4-21-13 Unseasonable chum salmon - St. Mary's, Alaska, USA

4-21-13 Early brown bear - Pedro Bay, Alaska, USA

Local hunter reported that he had caught a spotted seal that he thought was sick.

Batogoo Dorj is a nomad in southern Mongolia’s Bayankhongor Region who makes his living raising cashmere goats. Each spring, Dorj can shear about 300 grams of the valuable, downy wool from each of his 350 goats. Those voracious and sharp-hoofed animals are contributing to the desertification and climate change that is reducing Mongolia’s available grazing land.

A mystery bloom brightens up local beach.

An Alaska scientist challenges the so-called “unexplained” lesions and deaths observed among Arctic sea life in 2011 and 2012.

3-13-13 Buggy ptarmigan - Noatak, Alaska, USA

Severe storms wreak havoc to a Bering Sea community; the following weather conditions contributed to flooding, disrupting transportation routes, electrical transformers and seepage into local water wells.

3-5-13 Changing sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

2-2-13 Many wolf sightings - Togiak, Alaska, USA