How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with space-borne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. Covering about 15% of the Earth’s land surface, boreal ...

Canada’s boreal forest must be saved. Canada’s boreal forest must be saved. Ecosystem stores 27 years of CO2 emissions. mongabay.com. May 14, 2007 ...

The new report points out that Canada's boreal forest, ... "When there are people who think about that, and don't think of its important role in the earth's ecology, ...

Some 43,000 square kilometres of northern boreal forest were ravaged in Russia, due mainly to fires, in 2013, while Canada shed another 24,500 square kilometres — amounting to a "very ...

Canada has long promoted itself globally as a model for protecting one of the country’s most vital natural resources: the world’s largest swath of boreal forest, which is crucial to fighting ...

What’s more, Canada’s boreal forest area is an important carbon sink, meaning that it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. And by keeping carbon out of the atmosphere, ...

Canada's vast forests should be protected much more than they are now to preserve wildlife and water and to fight global warming, a group of 1,500 scientists from around the world said on Monday.

Canada will soon have the largest protected boreal forest - an area twice the size of Belgium - on the planet. Some 1.6m hectares of remote land in the province of Alberta are being made into new ...

Canada also has a particularly important stewardship role for birds and other wildlife that becomes ... The analogy of the boreal forest as the world's Noah's Ark is an apt one under climate ...

Of course, we know that the boreal forest is a major carbon sink. The amount of carbon stored in the boreal forest just in Canada is thought to be 26 to 27 times the annual industrial output of ...

Canada's boreal forest provides clean water and a stable climate worth billions of dollars, says a report released Friday. The document estimates the annual value the forest creates through ...