Tag: boreal forest
Alaska on fire: Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate...
Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaska is on pace for another historic wildfire year, with its fastest start...
As extreme fires transform Alaska’s boreal forest, deciduous trees put a...
forest burns
Jill Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Heather Dawn Alexander, Auburn University; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona...
The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years –...
Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Steve Petsch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a...
In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
Nancy Fresco, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
