The more than 15 million square kilometers (about 5.8 million square miles) of boreal forest features deciduous trees and conifers that can survive cold temperatures year-round.

More information: Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO 2 uptake, Nature Climate Change (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02234-5 Provided by Woodwell ...

WASHINGTON — In 2021, wildfires pillaged the world’s carbon-rich snow forests. That year, burning boreal forests released 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, researchers reported March ...

The Boreal Shield is the the largest of Canada’s 15 terrestrial ecozones, where boreal forests overlap the Canadian Shield. It stretches almost 4,000 kilometres from Newfoundland to Alberta.