Healthy forest ecosystems support current and future jobs in the logging industry, store carbon in the soil, help mitigate ...

Canada's boreal forest stretches from Newfoundland and Labrador to northeastern British Columbia and the Yukon, and covers 270 million hectares. It is a major carbon sink and provides important ...

One option includes using fungi. "It would be another line of defence," said Sheila Gilmour, mayor of the community about 250 ...

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

CBS Minnesota station WCCO brings you to the polar bear capital of the world, where warming Arctic waters are putting the ...

A warming climate increases the amount of water boreal forests need to survive and ... The megafires of western Canada and Alaska this past year are examples of such unpredictable and potentially ...

Long-term changes in tree basal area across the boreal zone, Canada This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Permanent forest plots (PSP) were used to investigate long-term ...

Every summer, wildfires sweep across Canada’s boreal forest. In 2023 alone, a record 6,000 fires torched 15 million hectares of land. Increasingly, wildfire season brings increased smoke, ...

The boreal is one of Earth’s largest old-growth forests, and each artwork in “Northern Lights” attempts to portray the majesty of one of its varied landscapes. Artist Harald Sohlberg, for ...

Two summers ago, Fox Creek, Alta., was evacuated for 19 days due to an approaching wildfire. While the town of 1,900 people ...