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 ...

A group of European scientists have recently proposed an idea to sink mature trees from the vast boreal forest in Canada, Alaska and Russia into the deep Arctic ocean, to store the carbon for ...

Two hundred and forty-one years ago, when General George Washington marched back into New York City as British troops were walking out, a volcano erupted in Iceland. For eight months in 1783, Laki ...

As the cold and snow of winter approached many regions of the United States in November 2025, an image circulated online that purported to show a tree in Alaska encased in ice that formed a peculiar ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Four conservation groups have petitioned the Interior Department to list an iconic Alaska tree as threatened or endangered because of climate change. Yellow cedar for centuries has ...

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 ...

Tricia Howe, a volunteer working at the Aug. 19, 2023,"weed smackdown" at Anchorage's Tikishla Park, pulls another felled European bird cherry tree to put on a pile near the park's softball field.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A massive spruce tree that came to life in an Alaskan forest during former President Ronald Reagan’s White House days has arrived on a ...

State officials have barred the import, transport and sale of two fast-growing invasive species that were once popular garden ornamentals but have now wreaked havoc on natural vegetation. The Alaska ...