Truth is, we don’t know how the Tree of Life will fall, and we don’t know when. It could happen in five years, in 40 years, ...

Annual cold snaps have kept some invasive tree pests in check, but outbreaks could become more common with warming ...

GALENA, Alaska (AP) — As ice breaks on the Yukon River ... Naturally felled and chopped trees and logs have long journeyed down rivers and oceans, transported by winds, waves, currents and ice, some ...

Visit this remote island off the coast of Alaska for a unique escape where you can spot rare wildlife and admire impossibly ...

Ben Weissenbach's new book offers a thoughtful look at Alaska's enduring magic—and its rapidly changing climate.

A surge of lightning and dry weather is fueling wildfires across Alaska. Crews are battling over 20 new fires, including the Bridge Fire along the Elliott Highway, now at 20 ...

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A massive spruce from an Alaskan forest, chosen to be the Capitol Christmas Tree, arrived in Washington on a new flatbed trailer, accompanied by two veteran truckers from Lynden Transport.

A new machine-learning system can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of low and moderate ...

The trees’ twisted crowns are evidence of the forest’s scrappiness: A black spruce seed riding the wind in 1728—the year the first Danish explorer crossed the Bering Sea between Asia and ...

White spruce trees dot the tundra in the Brooks Range. These trees are better able to survive harsh conditions due to heavy winter snowfall, a result of Arctic sea ice loss. (Photo courtesy Colin ...

The researchers could generalize this beyond their study sites in Alaska, showing that boreal trees growing elsewhere around the Arctic—birch, pine, larch, and other kinds of spruce—are moving ...