Elodea, a fast-growing leafy plant, is now in a roadside ditch at the marsh, and a response plan is in the works.

Himalaya blackberry is an introduced, perennial, spreading shrub.

During the 2012 wind storm, many of the poplars lost branches or their tops. Now leave the leaves are growing back as big as pie plates.

Since the 2012 wind storm, the forest in Cheney Lake Park has been rapidly transforming from native cottonwoods to a variety of exotic ornamental trees.

Plant found in patch of high bush cranberries.

Unusually rainy year for Lower Kalskag this year.

Long-term consequences.

A study is looking into why birch trees are dying off in the prairies and British Columbia, but a researcher says they can be salvaged.

Silver salmon, Brant geese and berries.

Strange and unusual plant located in Nulato on northwest bank of the Yukon River.

Rapid growth of white spruce over the past three summers observed.

Spruce trees growing fast.

Proliferation of thick brown algae is affecting fishing, tourism and marine life on both sides of the Atlantic, say scientists

Unusual Flora

The polar bear is a powerful symbol of the effects of climate change in the Arctic.  Here in New England, our symbol may soon be the sugar maple tree. 

Interior Alaska’s hot and dry summer of 2013, coupled with an invasion of insect pests, has taken a steep toll on the region’s birch trees, experts say.