Boreal forests are continuing to shift northward as they warm due to climate change, satellite images taken over the last several decades show. Boreal forests are the world's largest terrestrial biome ...

Earth’s vast northern forests may be doing far more to slow climate change than scientists once realized. New research from Sweden shows that untouched, old-growth boreal forests store dramatically ...

The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new ...

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...

Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, and timber. The few remaining "old-growth" natural forests are relics of ...

How best to map ‘boreal’ or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A month ago, it was smoke. Now it’s fire. The hellish summer that has scorched more than 4 million acres west of the Rocky Mountains and sent smoke plumes drifting across the continent ...

The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years, ...

While Natural Resources Canada says no pipeline project is officially being considered in Quebec's boreal forest, a document ...

More information: Mahtab Yazdanian et al, Evidence for bottom‐up effects of moth abundance on forest birds in the ...