Alaska's boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world. But as the state warms twice as fast as the rest of the U.S., once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs.

In Alaska, one area where land ... And, Parshley says, there's a lot at stake in the boreal forest. Lois Parshley: The boreal forest is one of the world's largest biomes. And it is filled with ...

a diminishing world stripped of its former richness. Driving north to Alaska, my own first glimpse of the boreal forest was of blackened spruce skeletons from a highway that wound through the oil ...

Using new satellite data analysis techniques, researchers found that, since 2000, summer wildfires have expanded in boreal forests ... Russia and Alaska, are the world’s largest land biome.

According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing areas are dotted around Alaska ... with others being boreal forests. Map of areas that experienced ...

The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska ... northern boreal forests increase, moving the entire forest system to one single state. The open forest type in a warmer world could lead ...

With climate change raising Arctic temperatures faster than the global average, wildfires are shifting poleward where the flames blaze through boreal forest ... grayscale map of the world showing ...

Roman Dial receives funding from the US National Science Foundation and NASA Alaska Space Grant ... Monitoring boreal forests around the world more closely, using both satellite data and on ...

was in Fairbanks once to give a lecture on one of the easiest-to-find animals in the boreal forest. The square-jawed biologist is perhaps the world’s foremost expert on red squirrels.

Using new satellite data analysis techniques, researchers found that, since 2000, summer wildfires have expanded in boreal ... forests, which cover huge swaths of Canada, Russia and Alaska, are ...