Mount Sanford has been losing its ice cover for decades around its base.
3-5-14 Advisory - beluga safety
Two horned grebes have settled in Reykjavík Pond in the city centre, RÚV reports. It is the first time the species is found nesting at the location. At the turn of the century, the horned grebe population was placed on a watchlist due to its decline, but it seems to have made a recovery since. […]
For a couple years, Sand Point residents have observed an increasing number of the non-native leopard slug.
For the second year in a row, the Anchorage area set a new snowfall record. This year it wasn’t the amount of fluffy stuff that went down in the history books — last year Anchorage had more than 11 feet — but the days between the first and last snowfall.
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.
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