Skeptics falsely claim age of glacier-covered trees disproves Earth warming

Climate-denying social media posts are claiming the age of trees photographed where glaciers have receded in Southeast Alaska ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

USDA Forest Service Moves to Open 1,600+ Acres of Alaska’s Tongass to Logging

The fight for the largest intact temperate forest in the United States continues with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...
4k Films by Adnan on MSN

A snowy road cutting through Alaska’s frozen wilderness

This breathtaking aerial view captures the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, where a snow-covered road stretches through a vast ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Rocks, roads and wilderness maintenance: 'Ghosts of Distant Trees' shifts the framing of mythical Alaska

‘I’ve tried and failed to be a cheerleader for the pure abstraction of wilderness,” Erica Watson writes in “Ghosts of Distant Trees,” her debut essay collection, “but I always find myself drawn back ...
WESA

Beneath Alaskan Wildfires, A Hidden Threat: Long-Frozen Carbon's Thaw

The Fish Creek Fire in Interior Alaska isn't much to look at. It's about 7,500 acres in size, sitting about an hour south of Fairbanks near the twisty Tanana River. The main fire front — the ...
The New York Times

Tree Lovers in the South Grieve Ice Storm’s Toll

The ice that fell during last month’s storm was unsparing: It decimated magnolias, oaks and other species in wealthy suburban enclaves, rural communities and urban parks. The ice that fell during last ...