Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.

The cost of the recent fires has been revealed as Vladimir Putin today visited TransBaikal to assess the damage en route to a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vladivostok

Rabies has been identified by the State of Alaska as being endemic (regularly found) in the fox population in this area.

Aerial shots of what appeared to be remnants of an oil spill in the Essequibo River has turned out to be huge beds of sargassum seaweed which is now a

Seasonal swings set drivers up for bad trip.

Forecasts indicate that ice cover will thin by dozens of centimetres all the way up to Lapland.

At least 90 left homeless in one village after raging infernos, say reports.

the Beaufort Picnic Area appears to consist of stream-origin alluvial cobbles, pebbles, and perhaps sand, and so not well consolidated, thus perhaps making these trees relatively vulnerable to wind. The snapped-off trees, however, indicate the unusually high intensity of this particular windstorm.

Lame, exhausted and confused, the young male polar bear is far from his natural habitat to the north.

The Balsam Poplar in the Montney Valley are weakened and after a somewhat gentle winter of snow and wind are subject to unusual amounts of blowdown, uprooting, and breakage.

A sharp decline in chestnut trees caused by a parasitic fungus in Russia's southern Krasnodar region is threatening the area's honey production, according to local beekeepers and scientists.

I rarely see trumpeter swans on the lake, and I don't ever remember seeing them so early.

The sun when direct was intense, definitely not April and not May...more like the month of June.

Wildlife officials say populations of the silvery Pacific sardine have plummeted over the past decade.

Permafrost preserved the ‘oldest blood in the world’ boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life.