Hotter, drier summers causing wild berry declines in Gwich’in Settlement Area, new study finds
By Yumna Iftikhar When Annie Buckle was growing up in Aklavik, she said wild berries were so abundant that they
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Researchers ask citizens to monitor Alaska berries
A group of scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are hoping to give pickers better data on when berries
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Only endangered plant in Alaska to undergo status review
The federal government has announced a review of the status of the tiny Aleutian shield fern, which barely survives between the rocks and
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Worst berry season in years expected in northern Sweden
Berry-picking afficionados in northern Sweden are facing the worst harvest in more than five years. Jonas Dahlgren, who helps carry
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Researchers return to Canada’s Arctic to study flora, ducks
A pair of botanists that have spent four years documenting local plant life in Nunavut are back in the
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Birds carry plant fragments from Arctic
Mosses and other plants that grow in northernmost North America are also found in southern South America, but not in
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