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

An effort to return 73 square miles of forests to California’s Yurok Tribe has been completed. Organizers say the deal will ...

Here are the places you're likely to run into mosquitoes ... and some places where you may be able to avoid them.

Forest fires are a fundamental force in Earth's dynamics with a direct impact on human health, food security, and ...

Anne M. Crossman is a former journalist and media manager. She now does volunteer work in her community of Annapolis Royal ...

Canadian wildfire smoke is triggering air quality alerts across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, as the northern ...

Canada's wildfire season has begun earlier than traditionally documented for some provinces, with tens of thousands of ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

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

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark.

Mastodon bones and teeth found in the Yukon were all older than 50,000 years old, while enduring farther south until about 10 ...