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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...