Jamie Sayen of Stratford is author of “You Had a Job for Life,” an oral history of the Groveton paper mill. Mount Washington’s summit region, an enchanting, wild, dangerous world, is home to the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that ...

Climate warming can induce the encroachment of shrubs and may trigger treeline dynamics. However, the responses of shrubs and trees to climate change may be modulated by other environmental drivers ...

The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon ...

For most of the year, snow covers Colorado’s highest peaks. Above about 11,000 feet, cold blustery winds can be relentless through the winter. But summer can transform these Alpine tundra environments ...

Is there anything more astonishing than witnessing a 12,000-foot, windswept ridge, barren for the past 10 months, transformed into a tapestry of pink, blue, yellow, purple and white wildflowers, ...