A respiratory pathogen once thought to only affect sheep and goats has been found in Alaska caribou and moose. The bacterium, called mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, or "Movi," has also been implicated in the death of an emaciated caribou from the Fortymile herd last month.
In May and June, dead birds, mostly murres, have been washing up on beaches on St. Lawrence Island, Shishmaref and east Norton Sound.
Michael Soltis’ death is the second fatal bear attack in the Anchorage municipality in two summers.
For the second year in a row, dead seabirds are washing up on beaches throughout the region by the hundreds. The birds appear to be starving, but scientists say the story is more complicated.
The first heat wave of the season went out with a bang across the province
Rare observation of sea otter in Haro Strait, perhaps first since 2014.
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) found in the bay near Platinum, slightly north of usual species range.
Heavy mats of seaweed are washing up on South Florida beaches, creating thick barriers to the ocean.
Sockeye are smaller in size and fewer in number this year than in recent years.
Would Midsommar even be Midsommar without Swedish strawberries? Well millions may be about to find out.
Sleeper sharks are already known to range as far north as the Chukchi Sea, but reports of possible shark attacks on seal and sea lions have increased — and now come from further into the Arctic.
Weak returns forced the latest restriction. Good news: Sockeye fishing at the Russian River is forecast to be good.
Sweden's unusually warm and sunny May, which pushed the early varieties, which are normally timed to peak at Midsommar, to flower and fruit two weeks early.
State officials are now blaming toxoplasmosis, a parasite carried in cat feces, for the deaths of three critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals on Oahu.
Thousands of herring washed up around Piltun Bay in northeastern Sakhalin..
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency order Wednesday closing the personal-use and sport fishing for Copper River sockeye around Chitina until further notice. It goes into effect on Monday, June 18th.
This most Northerly Bobcat (Lynx rufus) observation in the iNaturalist database marks the leading edge of the northward expansion of this species.
Some 600 million Indians, about half the population, face high to extreme water scarcity conditions, with about 200,000 dying every year from inadequate access to safe water, says a government report.
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