Ireland's highest temperature was reported at Shannon Airport, Co Clare on June 28 reaching a high of 32.0 °C, its highest since 1946. The summer of 2018 will be remembered for the scorching heatwave and drought conditions that affected the whole country.

NOAA and NASA satellites measured an average sea-surface temperature of 68.93 degrees Fahrenheit in the Gulf of Maine on Aug. 8, only 0.05 degrees below the all-time record high of 68.98 set in 2012. It is the epicenter of the U.S. lobster fishing industry, an important feeding ground for rare North Atlantic right whales .

It was the hottest summer in the 174-year history of weather records in Helsinki, and the second hottest in the 118-year history of the weather station in Sodankylä, Lapland.

The 93-degree temperature was recorded at 2:13 p.m.

Guy Monty and Mark Wynja photographed a Common Ringed Plover at Oyster Bay on Sept 5-2018. They were there to view a reported Buff-breasted...

Biologists say plentiful food and other conditions are helping the rodents to thrive, and now the young ones are hitting the road.

According to Environment Canada’s senior climatologist David Phillips, it was the third-wettest August in Dawson since records began in 1897.

Small, approachable, deer found with possible broken jaw, discolored saliva, and injury on hindquarter.

Botswana's 2018 Wildlife Aerial Survey has revealed large-scale poaching of the country's elephants with conservationists saying so far, 87 carcasses have been found.

Three farmed salmon have been caught in the Westfjords this season. Farmed salmon have a tendency to swim up rivers later in the season than wild salmon, meaning the true number of escapees may not be apparent until the end of the fishing season.

Five search and rescue volunteers this weekend assisted yet another stranded bottlenose whale back out to sea. The whale was stuck on the beach at Ólafsvík on the Snæfellsnes peninsula.

Why did the sea lion cross the road? Scientists don't know yet.

But the appearance of new chemicals is creating an uncertain future for polar bears, orcas and seabirds.

The Swedish Saami Association is demanding a comprehensive aid package from Stockholm after a season of unprecedented drought and wildfire ravaged the country, including key reindeer grazing areas.

The animals didn't necessarily become sick, researchers said, but were encountering the new pathogens much more frequently.

School out for Roxburgh pupils as third day of thunderstorms looms.

The Yukon government crunched the numbers and confirmed that 2017 was a relatively bad year for human-bear conflicts in Yukon. It's estimated that more bears were killed this year than in any of the previous five years.

When the river takes the first houses, the village could start to scatter. And Newtok’s blend of the modern and traditional could erode away with the land.

A National Weather Service employee spotted an ice jam that's causing some minor flooding northwest of the Starner Street bridge, along Peters Creek.