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.

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 ...

One is the boreal chorus frog, which inhabits much of central Canada ... Canada lynx occupy a huge area of boreal forests across Canada, Alaska, and the northern contiguous U.S., while Eurasian ...

The Kenai Peninsula marks the edge of Alaska’s boreal forest. While its western coast is stubbled with spruce, its eastern fjords hold the rainforests of the Pacific maritime, a lusher ecosystem ...

Alaska alone accounts for half of the United States' fire emissions of carbon dioxide, largely because of the burning boreal forests. University of Oregon Professor Emeritus Bart Johnson said ...

Sikes is co-author of a new study of insects sampled in three areas of Alaska’s boreal forest. Blanketing land masses of the north from Alaska to the easternmost provinces in Canada, the boreal ...

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 ...

Ever wonder how many trees stand tall in North America's vast boreal forest? A new University of ... number of 4,367 tree plots across Canada and Alaska, compared with 346 plots used in the ...

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 ...