Changing climate, changing landscape: monitoring the vast wilderness of interior Alaska [ 32:40 | 29.91 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35)

  National Park Service plant ecologist Carl Roland lives in Alaska, where climate change is palpably present. Ecologists have predicted major landscape-scale changes in the future of the Alaskan interior, with a potential shift from the iconic black and white spruce boreal forest, to broadleaf trees, or even grasslands, through a combination of heat, drought, [...]

Injecting humor into climate change [ 8:22 | 7.66 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2)

Many science communicators suggest that the key to effectively translating climate change research is to keep the message concise, accurate and interesting, all in one tight package. Perhaps the most streamlined of platforms to communicate this science is a comic strip in which the cartoonist has just a few panels to neatly and accurately convey [...]

Arctic shrubs looming large: Climate change and tundra productivity [ 13:46 | 12.61 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1)

All around the world, the subtle—and not-so-subtle—impacts of climate change are becoming apparent.  In the Arctic, where temperatures are warming at about twice the rate of lower latitudes, researchers are discovering marked changes in the landscape. In this month’s Field Talk, we take a trip to the High Arctic with James Hudson, whose paper in [...]