The Kenai Peninsula marks the edge of Alaska’s boreal forest ... half of annual rainfall in European forests, and helps drive the Amazon’s seasonal monsoons. Spruce are particularly good ...

In Alaska, one area where land managers and ecologists are wrestling with those questions is the boreal forest, home to spruce and birch trees, wetlands and many species of animals. But the boreal ...

Alaska's boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world. But as the state warms twice as fast as the rest of the U.S., once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs.

The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about to fundamentally ... data from satellites to model future shifts. Boreal forests encircle the cold, northern regions of ...

The continent’s boreal forest reposes in subarctic latitudes, spanning much of Alaska and Canada. Scientists had previously suggested that its range might shift northward as the climate warms ...

Using new satellite data analysis techniques, researchers found that, since 2000, summer wildfires have expanded in boreal ... forests, which cover huge swaths of Canada, Russia and Alaska ...

Roman Dial receives funding from the US National Science Foundation and NASA Alaska Space Grant. Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s ...

The boreal forest, which is second only ... Scandinavia, Russia and Alaska -- has been weakened by increasing forest fires, the melting of permafrost, intensifying insect infestations and warming ...