There are 130 birch trees in the one-third acre study plot, part of the OneTree Alaska project that Dawe oversees. Researchers are using the trees to see how a longer growing season is affecting ...

The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the ...

The Birch Glacier was "much worse" due to the amount of ice and meltwater, which caused a deluge of ice, ... according to the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.