Scientists reconstructed a Wyoming forest from 56-million-year-old fossil leaves; it lost about 60% of its canopy during ancient warming and took more than 100,000 years to recover
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September 7, 2026
Wyoming tetons Representative image from Canva Deep in the rock record of Wyoming, a layer of fossil leaves tells a quiet but powerful story about what happens to forests when the planet warms rapidly. About 56 million years ago, during a spike in global…
Boreal forests shade northern permafrost so effectively that summer snowmelt remains shallow, about a meter; researchers estimate their canopies freeze 59 billion tons of carbon
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July 30, 2026
Spruce and birch trees lean along the edge of Stevens Pond on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on September 18, 2022. The dense green canopy of northern forests acts like a giant sunshade, keeping the permafrost cool enough to safely store 59…