New research from Boston University reveals that while warmer summers can speed up tree growth, declining snowpack may slow ...

Forests are a crucial resource for carbon mitigation, currently offsetting around 20% of North American carbon emissions. As ...

Declining snow accumulation in the mountains of the Northeastern U.S. will likely reduce the ability of forests to act as a ...

As the last bits of snow on Mount Washington melt away in early summer, they’re providing more for the alpine ecosystem than ...

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

Strawberries are known as heart berries or ode’iminan in Ojibwemowin and they play a special role in our regional ecosystems.

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier ...

Looming floodwaters are threatening to strike two more Swiss villages in after a glacier collapse saw nearly an entire village become buried under snow. The shocking avalanche in Valais on ...

The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed yesterday, sending millions of tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below ...

"What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere," Morlighem said. Glaciers in Switzerland have lost almost 40% of their volume since 2000, ...

Why glaciologists believe the Birch Glacier collapsed, burying a nearby Swiss town The landslide flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten.

The Shima-enaga thrives exclusively in Hokkaido’s forests, living primarily in birch trees and snow-covered landscapes. Their geographic isolation from the main island gives them distinct ...