Boreal forests encircle the cold, northern regions of our planet. They host a diverse set of species, regulate global climate by storing huge amounts of carbon in the trees and soils, and provide ...

My mum got me a scented candle for Christmas. It came in a tasteful little Nordic-looking box and promised ‘the calm of the boreal forest’. I didn’t really know what the boreal forest was ...

How will Earth’s vast boreal forests look in a warmer world? Combining satellite-based research with fieldwork shows that the planet’s largest wilderness may be changing in unexpected ways.

Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta in summer of 2021, but the air was still thick with smoke from the Canadian infernos ...

The state of conservation in North America’s boreal forest: issues and opportunities. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change . Vol. 3, July 30, 2020. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00090.

Boreal forests have relied on wildfires for thousands of years, and only recently those wildfires have grown out of control as climate change increases their frequency and severity. "Fires in the ...

Carbon emissions from wildfires in boreal forests, the earth’s largest land biome and a significant carbon sink, spiked higher in 2021 than in any of the last 20 years, according to new research ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The boreal forests of North America could be destroyed by even modest climate change, new research shows. A recently published scientific study led by a University of Michigan ...

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

The boreal forest is second only to the Amazon in terms of its vital role in ensuring the future of the planet. May 21, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account. eBooks Subscribe GIFT FRONT PAGE.

Fires like these in North American and Eurasian boreal forests created historic amounts of climate-changing carbon dioxide in 2021, according to a new study Thursday in the journal Science.