Russia's boreal forest ... Larch trees drop their needles in the fall, allowing the vast snow-covered ground surface of winter to reflect sunlight and heat back into space.

Russia's boreal forest ... Larch trees drop their needles in the fall, allowing the vast snow-covered ground surface of winter to reflect sunlight and heat back into space.

Eastern larch beetles, tiny burrowing bugs native to Minnesota, are exploding in number across the state's northern forest and have killed or damaged about a third of the state's tamarack trees ...

Tree rings from the Arctic Urals show that since the 15th century, many of the primary tree species — Siberian larch ( Larix sibirica Ledeb.) — have grown in a stunted, shrubby form, sporting ...

Russia's boreal forest - the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world - has seen a transformation in recent years from larch to conifer trees, according to new research by University of ...

The Dahurian larch tree, known by its scientific name as Larix gmelinii, is specially adapted to survive the long, cold, dark winters of the permafrost plains in northern Asia. The species makes up ...

The ferns, trees, mosses, ... Boreal forests have a short growing season of about 130 ... the Dahurian larch is a midsized conifer that grows in high elevations of up to 3,600 feet above ...

Russia's boreal forest — the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world — has seen a transformation in recent years from larch to conifer trees, according to new research by University ...

The research team has found that the increase in soil temperature may have led to an increase in the tree’s growth. “If the larch forest retreat in this region in the future, it is also not a good ...

Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China -- the northernmost tree species on Earth -- are growing faster as a result of climate change. A new study of growth rings from Dahurian ...