Every year, the Huntington family spent about $7,000 on diesel to heat the cabin during bone-chilling winters, and a few ...

The Arctic Boreal Zone (ABZ) is a particularly important one: for many centuries now, its tundra, coniferous forests, and wetlands around the Arctic Circle have absorbed carbon and sequestered it ...

About 250 Alaska Natives still reside inside the park in a pint-sized village near Anaktuvuk Pass, where the Nunamiut, one of North America’s last nomadic people, hunt caribou and fish to survive.

Rising tall against the endless tundra and boreal forests below, the highest peak in North America dominates the central Alaska landscape. Soaring 20,310 feet above the earth, the mountain, known for ...

Growing carbon sources have been showing up primarily in northern Europe, Canada, Siberia, and central Alaska. Carbon sources are becoming especially prevalent in tundra and boreal environments in ...

Warming severity "hotspots" in Arctic-boreal region between 1997-2020. Christina Shintani / Woodwell Climate Research Center Map of areas that experienced vegetation climate stress in the Arctic ...

Fieldwork notes, July 21-August 3, 2023 Summer fieldwork for our project, “Clarifying Linkages Between Canopy Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) and Physiological Function for High Latitude Vegetation,” ...

In Alaska, one area where land managers and ecologists are wrestling with those questions is the boreal forest, home to spruce and birch trees, wetlands and many species of animals.

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 ...

North America’s Boreal Forest, however, offers a different story. With ~1.5 billion acres ... which spans the northern part of the continent from Alaska to Newfoundland, ... 3–5 billion birds ...

The tree is known by a few names, which include the fire, Nuttall, mountain, and black willow. In Alaska, the Scouler Willow can be found in boreal forests throughout the state. At first, the ...