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What happened to the trees in this valley?

This video shows a broad wetland valley in Alaska, United States, where a narrow stream winds through golden grasses and ...
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 ...

In Alaska, wildfires help prevent future burns. Researchers question if that feedback loop will hold

In Alaska's boreal forests, a negative feedback loop between wildfires and vegetation plays an important role in governing ...
Courthouse News Service

Alaska tribe sues feds to stop logging in Tongass National Forest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CN) — Significant amounts of old-growth trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest are on the federal chopping block, prompting a Thursday lawsuit from the Ketchikan Indian Community ...
South Carolina Public Radio

As Alaska warms, landslides pose growing threat to communities

“Alaska has abundant slides due to steep slopes, direct exposure to storms that bring big rain and wind as well as ...