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 ...

Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That's the thinking behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and ...

I know “fall is for planting,” or at least supposed to be, but can you plant trees in the summer? This is a question I get all season long — and, I might add, every summer as well. Since you live in ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska’s Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska officials have announced a statewide ban on two invasive, berry-producing trees in an effort to protect native ecosystems. The European bird cherry and chokecherry — ...

Tree cores pulled from some of the planet’s oldest trees have helped extend records of past weather.

Chilkoot Lake is surrounded by the Haines State Forest and Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. The state of Alaska is overhauling the long-term plans for its three state forests to boost revenue from ...

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 ...