Ever wonder how many trees stand tall in North America's vast boreal forest? A new University of Alberta study has the answer ...

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as “Taiga” in North America), offering unprecedented ... index designed to extract coniferous ...

In North America, arctic tundra is found in northern ... You can expect to find fir, spruce, larch, aspen, and jack pine. The boreal forest separates the tundra from the temperate forest.

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 new study ...

Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest ... all share the nature of the north,” says the museum in a statement. “The seemingly boundless expanses of the forest, the radiant light of ...

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as 'Taiga' in North America), offering ... to extract coniferous forest areas from Landsat ...

“It signals, perhaps like heat waves, floods, and forest fires that the climate is really changing,” Dial adds. A third Nature study takes a broader look at North America’s southern boreal ...

In North American boreal forests, several million hectares can go up in smoke in a single year. On the other hand, these forest fires can seem almost negligible for several consecutive years.