'Mini jungle': Alaska is getting greener as the climate warms – with cascading effects

A lush knee-high jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth's mini-greenhouse. View on euronews ...

A lush knee-high jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth’s mini-greenhouse

Except this lush Arctic jungle tops out at about 10 inches. Together with Jake Francis, a professor at the university, Bloom ...

Since 2022, Alaska crews have placed more than 1,000 whole trees in a creek damaged by gold mining, helping restore 2.3 miles of salmon habitat

Resurrection Creek in Alaska has been revitalized into a thriving river thanks to comprehensive restoration efforts. By ...
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Trees hold secrets of El Niño and hurricanes, scientists say

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the 2026 hurricane season proceeds and a strong El Niño disrupts weather patterns around the globe, the world's trees will be ...
Alaska Dispatch News

As temperatures climb, Alaska's swelling trees gulp down water

POKER CREEK --On this south-facing hillside bathed in spring sunshine, trees are swelling like hot dogs. "They're all a little thicker than they were last week," Jessie Young says of the birch, aspen ...
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 ...

In 1883, an Iowa woman traveled alone to Alaska. She published its first travel guide and helped bring Washington’s famous cherry trees to America

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore was an Iowa-born writer and traveler who ventured to Alaska alone in 1883, documenting her journey ...
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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 ...