What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

Adaptive mechanisms in Mediterranean vegetation, such as deep rooting systems, have helped mitigate some impacts. But it’s far from enough. High risks remain.

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as 'Taiga' in North America), offering unprecedented insights into the health and dynamics of ...

For spruces, the greatest future risk of mortality is posed by the European spruce bark ... numbers are rapidly growing in boreal, hemiboreal and temperate forests due to climate warming.

More information: Mahtab Yazdanian et al, Evidence for bottom‐up effects of moth abundance on forest birds in the north‐boreal zone alone, Ecology Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1111/ele.14467 ...

The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband. It acts as the lungs of the planet, producing much of ...

For spruces, the greatest future risk of mortality is posed by the European spruce bark ... numbers are rapidly growing in boreal, hemiboreal and temperate forests due to climate warming.

Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern Hemisphere. In the late 19th century, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjaestad paint ...