A new analysis of fire activity in Alaska's Yukon Flats finds that so many forest fires are occurring there that the area has become a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere. This is worrisome, the ...

A 2,000-square-kilometer zone in the Yukon Flats of interior Alaska -- one of the most flammable high-latitude regions of the world, according to scientists -- has seen a dramatic increase in both the ...

There was no sign of these birds of prey in the boreal Yukon by 2007, but a long-term study is now recording small returns For more than three decades, biologist Dave Mossop has tracked the fortunes ...

Wildfire frequency in the northern boreal forest is entering untrodden territory as the climate warms, forest composition changes and more intense fires happen more often. According to a study ...

The Yukon Conservation Society is welcoming this week's report from an international scientific group, urging protection for half of Canada's boreal forests. The International Boreal Conservation ...