This process has been successful in establishing the Sphagnum mosses typical of bogs, which have acidic soil that is low in nutrients. It’s been less successful in reintroducing the Bryopsida mosses ...

There's an entire cycle of life that helps some wildlife thrive when the boreal forest burns, but experts say climate change ...

"Our research provides by far the most accurate and credible answer to the question of how many trees are in our boreal forests," says study lead Fangliang He, a forest ecologist and Canada ...

Stretching for more than 400,000 square kilometres, the province’s boreal forest is just a snapshot of a large network of trees and hardy plants that reach across the entire country.

The enormous and ecologically vital boreal forest extends through North America, northern Europe and Siberia, but the largest portion is in Canada. Beyond being an important natural habitat for ...

In his latest eco-doc endeavor “The Issue With Tissue – A Boreal Love Story,” Zelniker explores the effects of toilet paper manufacturing on Canada’s boreal forest region, which is chopped ...

It’s a shift that threatens to recur across Canada’s boreal forest. As wildfires increase in size, severity and frequency, against a backdrop of warmer temperatures and persistent drought ...

Labrador Tea, fireweed, chokecherry and raspberry are some of the boreal ... forest. However, these boreal plant species are important traditional plants for many Indigenous peoples in Canada ...

Fires are an important component of the boreal region, burning off old trees and leading to a regeneration of the forest. After a fire ... As the ice sheet that covered nearly all of Canada melted ...

The fire season, which stretched across boreal forests in Canada, the U.S. and Russia, could be a sign of things to come, concluded the study. “Boreal forests could be a time bomb of carbon ...

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 ...