ALPENA, MI – A place with both precious Great Lakes dune habitats and the most southerly edge of the boreal forest in Michigan will now be protected forever from future development ...

Michigan State University Museum will host the launch of an exhibition about the role the planet’s 1.3 billion acres of northern boreal forest plays in storing carbon and regulating the climate.

The boreal forest is Earth’s largest terrestrial ecosystem and the last intact forest in the world. In North America, it covers much of Alaska and Canada and extend into the contiguous U.S. It stores ...

“Boreal forests could be a time bomb of carbon, and the recent increases in wildfire emissions we see make me worry the clock is ticking,” said study author Steven Davis, a professor of earth ...

Further, the carbon dynamics of boreal lakes are dynamically coupled to watershed processes. Excepting major disturbances to boreal catchments, such as forest fires and forest harvest, surface waters ...

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 ...

Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests A new study warns that boreal forests are fast approaching a tipping point.

The boreal forest includes several species of trees and crucial mossy peatlands that play an outsized role in regulating the earth's temperature by sequestering planet-warming carbon dioxide.

Canada's Michael Zelniker came up with the idea for 'Issue With Tissue: A Boreal Love Story' during the pandemic toilet paper hoarding saga.

The flow of CO2 into and out of the vast northern forests has been increasing in recent years, thanks to climate change The boreal forest seems to like the higher levels of carbon dioxide that ...

With climate change driving species in the Northern Hemisphere ever further up the latitudinal ladder, a recent study released in the journal Science finds that Canada’s eastern boreal forests ...

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 ...