There's an entire cycle of life that helps some wildlife thrive when the boreal forest burns, but experts say climate change ...

The North American boreal forest contains approximately 277 billion trees, 31% more than previous estimates, based on advanced machine learning analysis of extensive tree plot data.

Stretching for more than 400,000 square kilometres, the province’s boreal forest is just a snapshot of a large network of trees and hardy plants that reach across the entire country.

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir ...

A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions. By Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai Ian ...

Ronny Rotbarth receives funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. David J. Cooper receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the US National Park Service, and ...

There’s a ply problem — at least, Canadian filmmaker Michael Zelniker believes so. In his latest eco-doc endeavor “The Issue With Tissue – A Boreal Love Story,” Zelniker explores the ...

She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." The boreal forest is the world's largest land-based biome. Spreading over continents and covering many countries ...

Although boreal forests absorb CO2 (which has a cooling effect on climate), they decrease the fraction of solar energy that is directly reflected back to space compared to open areas.

This article is part of La Conversation Canada’s series The boreal forest: A thousand secrets, a thousand dangers La Conversation Canada invites you to take a virtual walk in the heart of the ...