The boreal is one of Earth’s largest old-growth forests, and each artwork in “Northern Lights” attempts to portray the majesty of one of its varied landscapes. Artist Harald Sohlberg, for ...

Extreme weather, pest outbreaks and overharvesting are turning forest carbon sinks into carbon sources across Europe, ...

Europe's 1 million hectares of forests comprise 27 percent of the world's total forested area and cover 45 percent of the European landscape. A wide variety of boreal, temperate and sub-tropical ...

Right now, wildfires are raging across over 7 million acres of boreal forest in Western Canada, a continuous blanket of ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have found that increasing boreal forest fires may reduce global temperatures and ...

The boreal forest, meanwhile ... Transpiration contributes roughly half of annual rainfall in European forests, and helps drive the Amazon’s seasonal monsoons. Spruce are particularly good ...

Forests across Europe are becoming increasingly vulnerable ... likely due to site-adapted boreal species. However, insect damage increased, particularly from bark beetles, indicating potential ...

The enormous and ecologically vital boreal forest extends through North America, northern Europe and Siberia, but the largest portion is in Canada. Beyond being an important natural habitat for ...

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 ...