Gigantic glistening snowflakes gently tumbled from the gray sky to land on thick branches of the spruce outside the picture window. Although I had a long list of things to do, the swirling snowflakes ...

Science is messy business. Finding the truth is easier said than done.

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...

How trees fare under drought depends heavily on their past experiences. In some cases, adversity breeds resilience: Spruce trees that experience long-term droughts are more resistant to future ...

In the Thuringian Forest or the Harz Mountains, dead spruce trees (Picea abies) dot the landscape like skeletons. Many have already fallen or been cut down. These dead trees serve as memorials to the ...