As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

Paper birch, though, is so much more. According to the National Park Service, there is evidence of the trees being used by ...

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...

Global efforts to reduce pollution will not be enough to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, scientists say. We ...

Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging ...

Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider of carbon storage and clean water, could be ...

How best to map ‘boreal’ or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the ...

During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...

The recovery program resulted in bringing 1,000 new birds to the Adirondacks, including more than 700 chicks and is now ...

The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years, ...