Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

Janelle Marie Baker receives funding from ECCC, the Arctic Connections Fund, CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, and Athabasca University. Labrador Tea, fireweed, chokecherry and raspberry are some of the boreal ...

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 ...

When cooler weather arrives and some of your favorite summer birds escape to warmer climates, it doesnt mean the birding ...

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 ...

From Russia to the US, discover the world’s biggest forests by area and more about their fascinating history The total forest area in the world is 4.1 billion hectares, or 32 per cent. For context, ...

One of nature’s woody behemoths — the North American snow forest — may soon begin shrinking. The continent’s boreal forest reposes in subarctic latitudes, spanning much of Alaska and Canada.

Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta in summer of 2021, but the air was still thick with smoke from the Canadian infernos ...

The facilitator, like the tracker, does not seek to control, but to perceive flows, to reveal the possibilities of a living environment. In a world saturated with data and abstractions, the lesson of ...

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 ...