Warmer winter temperatures have altered frost patterns and growing seasons across the United States, forcing botanical ...

Pine Hollow Arboretum is one of many botanical gardens rethinking their planting strategies as the climate warms. These ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Open any ecology textbook and you’ll find the Canada lynx, the snowshoe hare, and their wildly oscillating population cycles offered as a classic example of the intimate relationship ...

In the harsh, frigid climates of Alaska and Northern Canada ... but it cannot tolerate actual freezing of its tissues. The Alaskan spruce beetle produces antifreeze proteins that prevent ice formation ...

That's the shredder. It is being used to cut down the donated trees in the wood lot at the Anchorage Landfill. The wood chips will be used to help cover the landfill daily. The wood lot is now open to ...

Efforts are expected to continue through 2029. “An estimated 2.17 million acres of Alaska’s spruce forests have been affected by the spruce beetle outbreak that began in 2016,” the release reads. “Of ...

“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council ... climate-linked wildfires and spruce beetle infestations are already ...

The majority of Alaska’s bird species are now at least moderately vulnerable ... In the 1990s, a devastating spruce beetle outbreak and wildfire felled almost a million acres of spruce. A grass called ...

A spruce-killing beetle infestation, which has been tied by scientists to ... is still available, Ollig said. “By Alaska standards, it’s not a super-big fire, but it’s very close to town,” Thoman said ...

That's critical as the beetle infestation spreads. The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection calls the spruce beetle "the most damaging insect in Alaska's forests." The identification ...

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...