Some species across the world are known only from museum specimens. Sadly, for some, the information we know from the museums is the only information we will ever have, but for others the museum ...

The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are magical places. Dripping with mosses and deep green sedges, these open expanses flanked by evergreens are a ...

The subalpine woolly rat lives high in the mountains of New Guinea, where it spends its nights searching for plants to eat and its days hiding in underground burrows or tree canopies. This furry ...

Subalpine larkspur forms large and dense populations in the West Elk and San Juan mountains in July and August. These are large plants with towers, or racemes, of deep blue to purple flowers that ...

Many subalpine lakes may look beautiful and even pristine, but new evidence suggests they may also be contaminated with potentially hazardous plastics. Researchers say those tiny microplastics are ...

Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent CU Boulder research.

A stand of whitebark pine dwarfed by the nearly 10,000-foot Dick's Peak in California's Sierra Nevada. (Courthouse News photo / Matthew Renda) (CN) — Hike the less trodden paths in Desolation ...

Following a devastating wildfire season in 2020, new research shows that high-elevation forests in the Rocky Mountains are burning more now than any time in the past 2,000 years amid extreme, climate ...

Trail cameras recorded nocturnal subalpine woolly rats roaming around in search of plants to eat. Czech Academy of Sciences The subalpine woolly rat lives high in the mountains of New Guinea, where it ...