As demonstrated by a new exhibition in Switzerland, each of these artists was inspired by the “spiritual landscape” of the boreal forest. “Northern Lights,” now open at the Beyeler ...

The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband. It acts as the lungs of the planet, producing much of ...

For spruces, the greatest future risk of mortality is posed by the European spruce bark ... numbers are rapidly growing in ...

Finland in Northern Europe is the home of saunas and traditionally ... This is known as a cool temperate climate. The forest is dense and made up of spruce and pine trees, that grow closely ...

A new study in Science examined more than 26,000 trees across an area the size of Spain (583,000 square kilometers) and found that boreal forests in far-northern latitudes may one day act as a ...