Scientists and students gather each summer at the remote Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station to study birds, bogs ...

My daughter and I wended our way through the streets of our West Philly neighborhood, shunted block after block by fire ...

UN Study Urges Focus on Boreal Forests Representing 27% of all forests worldwide, boreal forests are the planet's terrestrial "second lung" after tropical forests. Encircling the North Pole, they span ...

Their flora consists mostly of cold-tolerant evergreen conifer trees, such as spruce, larch, pine and fir, with some broadleaf species such as birch, poplar and alder. The world's boreal regions are ...

A forest biome community is a regional classification recognized by botanists and forest scientists. Discover the kinds of forest biomes of North America.

Can one tree save a forest? Absolutely. The Place: The Black Ram region of extreme northwestern Montana — on the U.S.-Canada border — exists in a magical seam of unparalleled biodiversity where the ...

What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

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.