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 ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.

Wildfires in the northern boreal forests of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia may be more damaging to the climate than ...

Boreal forests, often referred to as the "taiga," are vast ecosystems that stretch across the northern hemisphere, storing 25% and 40% of the global terrestrial carbon in their soils. However, the ...

Forests in the far north aren't standing still. A new analysis of 36 years of satellite imagery finds that the planet's ...

How best to map ‘boreal’ or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the ...

Despite decades of industrial deposition, nitrogen availability in the boreal forest is steadily declining. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural ...

A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada's boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting ...