FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF ... community members are waiting for “green up,” an annual occasion where the boreal forest seems to turn green over a day. Rick Thoman, Climate Specialist ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of ...

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.

The world’s boreal forests are estimated to hold about ... according to experts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While the refuge is gearing up for a new type of fire management to stem ...

That is, people can learn about the Boreal Forest (which surrounds Fairbanks) during a “walk in the woods” with University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service Forester Glen Holt.

Many fires are burning in the boreal forest, the spruce and pine-dominated ... Nancy Fresco, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told the Anchorage Daily News that tundra ...

Thick with spruce trees, bogs, and spongy tundra, boreal forests stretch across more than 60 percent of Alaska. At Running Reindeer Ranch in Fairbanks, naturalist Jane Atkinson leads walks in the ...

The Kenai Peninsula marks the edge of Alaska’s boreal forest. While its western coast is stubbled with spruce, its eastern fjords hold the rainforests of the Pacific maritime, a lusher ecosystem ...

This family-owned farm sits just north of Fairbanks in the boreal forest of the Goldstream Valley. Here, visitors are invited to take a guided nature walk through the forest with the family's ...

The views of volcanoes from Bishops Beach in Homer and walks through the boreal forest with reindeer at the Running Reindeer Ranch in Fairbanks are other experiences that highlight Alaska's ...