| Associated Press: Climate change provides opportunities as well as challenges, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks vice chancellor for research. But when it comes to warming's effect on Alaska's boreal forest, Buck Sharpton said, he sees only challenges: fire, insects and diseases. "If there's a silver lining in this cloud, I would certainly like to hear it," he said. Sharpton and other scientists gathered Wednesday at UAF for the start of a four-day international ... |
