The U.S. Forest Service has initiated a revision of the Tongass National Forest plan. At stake is whether the Forest Service ...

Alaska's boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world. But as the state warms twice as fast as the rest of the U.S., once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs.

(CN) – A federal judge in Alaska blocked the Trump administration’s plans to open the nation’s largest national forest to logging operations due to oversight in the federal government’s plans for the ...

The case put the Trump administration, which aims to boost logging, in the unusual position of arguing against expanded harvests. The Forest Service isn’t legally obligated to meet timber harvesting ...

The agency plans to hold meetings in 18 Southeast communities to collect public input from late March through early May.

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...

The Trump administration has announced plans for a timber sale that would destroy more than 5,100 acres of old-growth habitat in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. At 16.7 million acres, ...

View of the north arm of Tracy Arm, a fjord in Alaska near Juneau, Tongass National Forest, Alaska.Getty Images A forest scene at Takatz Bay on Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska.Getty ...

The Biden administration has restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sometimes called, “America’s Amazon.” The new protections, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the latest move in a ...