The Scots pines that are thought to have largely covered the country thousands of years ago are greatly reduced, but just how big the forest memorialized in Roman texts was is not clear. A view of ...

Soar over the vast Taiga, the world's largest biome, spanning Russia, Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and parts of Mongolia. This breathtaking drone footage captures endless coniferous forests, frozen ...

There are many different types of forests with different types of trees. Learn more about a few types of forests and the trees that populate them. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

Bryophytes make up a full 25% (1/4) of all understory biomass That’s equivalent to 1% of the aboveground tree biomass—a tiny fraction in size, but massive in significance when scaled across millions ...

Russia boasts the world's largest forest cover, encompassing a fifth of Earth's tree-covered land, including taiga and rainforest. The nation's vast green landscape is home to diverse wildlife, with ...

Rachel Chang is a travel and pop culture journalist who contributes to Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, and more. The Alishan Forest Railway is one of the most unique ways to see ...

Jay R. Malcolm has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Wahkohtowin Development GP Inc. (WDGP). The research also benefited from research on ...

The Peabody Essex Museum is inviting visitors this summer to explore what it considers to be the last remaining stretches of true wilderness. Knowing Nature: Stories of the Boreal Forest, developed by ...

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as “Taiga” in North America), offering unprecedented insights into the health and dynamics of ...

High in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, advocates are pushing to protect one of Europe's last stretches of wilderness and banking on sustainable tourism to revive a struggling rural area. A proposed ...

Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Noth Country Trail @ McCormick Tract, Baraga Co. (David Kenyon, Copyright 2014 State of Michigan) You have to be really, really lucky to ever see one, but flying ...