Melting Ice Patch in the Rocky Mountains Reveals 5000-Yr-Old Greenery ... temperatures dropped so drastically that these high-elevation trees could no longer survive, and the growing ice patch ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient whitebark pine trees preserved for almost 6,000 years in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains. This discovery offers crucial insights into historical climate patterns and ...

There is a huge beetle problem in the Rocky Mountains. The official declaration of what the mountain pine beetles are doing is a "catastrophic" killing off of trees. While foresters and others try ...

"No one had any idea that these patches ... the trees and preserved them until the present day. The trees revealed by the melting Rocky Mountain ice patch look "like trees that you would see ...

including Rocky Mountain National Park. Climate change is facilitating the spread of invasive grasses in the park as well as pine bark beetles, which are killing millions of trees. These changes, ...