Forest area fluctuations: The coniferous forest area in North America increased by 5.62% between 2018-2023 compared to 1984-1991. However, it decreased by 4.85% from its peak in 1992-2001. Impact of ...

From 2000 to 2019, the boreal forest’s northern boundary didn’t move while southern tree cover thinned due to climate change, wildfires and logging.

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 forest biome community is a regional classification recognized by botanists and forest scientists. Discover the kinds of forest biomes of North America.

Using satellite images, researchers found that fires in North America's boreal forest may be changing the environment in ways that researchers didn't previously anticipate.

A trio of studies in the journal Nature highlights the serious threat global warming poses to boreal and deciduous forests in North America.

The great gray owl, North America's largest owl, is a year-round resident of Canada's boreal. What would a cold, coniferous forest be without a big, grey owl?

CLIMATEWIRE | Boreal forest fires in northern Eurasia and North America — including parts of Canada, Alaska and Siberia — spewed record-breaking levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in ...

The new North Point Nature Preserve is seen on the map shaded in red. Among the habitats found within the new nature preserve are boreal forest, cedar wetlands, dune and swale, and coastal fen.

North America's Boreal Forest Is Still Smaller Than Its 1990s Peak The new study used 24,000 satellite images taken over 4 decades to track North America's taiga tree cover.