The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brown bear in a Siberian boreal forest. Logan Berner, CC BY-ND Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, ...

Boreal forests are continuing to shift northward as they warm due to climate change, satellite images taken over the last several decades show. Boreal forests are the world's largest terrestrial biome ...

Climate change is leaving plenty of dramatic reminders behind as it reshapes our planet, from rapidly retreating glaciers to more frequent extreme weather events. Forests are also bearing the brunt of ...

A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions. By Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai Ian Austen ...

Ronny Rotbarth receives funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. David J. Cooper receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the US National Park Service, and ...