The boreal forest is Earth’s largest terrestrial ecosystem and the last intact forest in the world. In North America, it covers much of Alaska and Canada and extend into the contiguous U.S. It stores ...

Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband ...

This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Read the original story here. A sign hanging above the door of a giant open-top glass chamber in a remote part of Minnesota’s Marcell ...

Research shows that the distribution of temperate hardwoods (sugar maple, red maple and yellow birch) could be shifting northward, which would have serious consequences for the boreal forest. How will ...

Research shows that the distribution of temperate hardwoods (sugar maple, red maple and yellow birch) could be shifting northward, which would have serious consequences for the boreal forest. How will ...

Aim: Climate change is occurring at accelerated rates in high latitude regions such as Alaska, causing alterations in woody plant growth and associated ecosystem patterns and processes. Our aim is to ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 6 (June 2021), pp. 2408-2422 (15 pages) Monitoring of surface waters in the boreal region over the last decades shows that waters are becoming browner. This ...