The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution into the atmosphere, according ...

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 ...

EAST LANSING, MICH. – A new traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition about the key role of the planet’s boreal forests as a carbon sink will debut its national tour in Michigan. Michigan State ...

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. According to a ...

Jennifer Baltzer receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs program, Canada's Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Polar Knowledge Canada, Global Water Futures, and the Government ...

Most wildfires in boreal forests, such as those in Canada, are caused by lightning strikes, according to a study aimed at attributing fire ignition sources globally. Lightning is the dominant cause of ...

Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees growing in dry areas, a new study conducted in an urban recreational forest in Helsinki shows. Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees ...

A new study, using a first-of-its-kind approach to analyze satellite imagery from boreal forests over the last three decades, has found that fire may be changing the face of the region in a way ...

Nitrogen fixation in boreal forests is vital for sustaining ecosystem productivity in environments where soil nitrogen is limited. Moss-cyanobacteria associations, commonly found in species such as ...

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 2 in a ...