Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging ...

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...

Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

Tundra voles are among the small mammals Dr. Phil Manlick, with the U.S. Forest Service, studies to understand how warming is changing boreal and Arctic food webs. Tiny organisms are making big moves ...

Global efforts to reduce pollution will not be enough to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, scientists say. We ...

The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years, ...

As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline of pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. University of Alaska Fairbanks’ ...

Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider of carbon storage and clean water, could be ...