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 ...

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as “Taiga” in North America), offering unprecedented insights into the health ...

With tropical rainforests, boreal wilderness, and reforested landscapes, these countries have the largest forest cover ...

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from ...

I will read anything set in the taiga, the band of boreal forest that lies just south of the Arctic Circle. The taiga crosses continents. There is Siberian taiga and Canadian taiga, for example.

Boreal forests store about one-third of the world’s land-based carbon. With wildfires increasing there, fighting climate change could get even harder.

The taiga is the largest contiguous vegetation zone in the world. The birch plays a special role in this boreal coniferous forest.

During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to ...

During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal ...

Boreal forests, or taiga, represent the largest terrestrial biome. Forests occupy approximately one-third of Earth's land area, account for over two-thirds of the leaf area of land plants, and contain ...

Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves, peatlands and boreal forests have helped cool the Earth for thousands of years.

“There’s a boreal forest in Alaska and Canada also but the Siberian, the Russian taiga is so widespread, and it’s subtly different” in the species that inhabit it, Bret-Harte said.