The expansion of the Keystone Ski Resort in Colorado can resume after the U.S. Forest Service approved a restoration plan for areas it said were damaged by unauthorized work. Parts of the project will ...

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 ...

In just a few decades shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of the warming Arctic climate, creating patches of forest which, if replicated across the tundra, would ...

The U.S. Forest Service has halted construction of a new lift in Keystone after the resort mistakenly built a temporary road in protected alpine tundra. Keystone has Forest Service permission to build ...

Scientists in northwest Wyoming found remnants of an ancient forest, frozen in ice on a barren tundra in northwest Wyoming. Uncovering the rest of the story is a race against time. The ghostly fallen ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We employed grass and forest versions of the CENTURY model under a range of N deposition values (0.02-1.60 g N m-2 y-1) to explore the ...

A survey of the extant carabid fauna of subarctic Manitoba was conducted for the purpose of determining species compositions and analyzing carabid community characteristics of forest-tundra and open ...

Rising summer temperatures have triggered an arboreal facelift across a vast swath of Eurasian tundra, transforming patches of Arctic prairie into forest much faster than scientists ever thought ...

In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth the forest of Birnam Wood fulfills a seemingly impossible prophecy by moving to surround the murderous king (the marching trees are helped, of course, by an army of ...

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, ...