Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

Zim Bog attracts birders from around the world. They flock there hoping to spot owls, hawks and rare songbirds that spend ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Researchers found major fire models underestimate carbon released from deep peat soils in boreal forests. Field data from 324 ...

New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.

Wildfires in the northern boreal forests of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia may be more damaging to the climate than ...

Forests are among the Earth’s most valuable natural treasures. They are home to countless species of plants and animals, which help regulate the climate and provide wood, food, medicine, and numerous ...

Climate change is leaving plenty of dramatic reminders behind as it reshapes our planet, from rapidly retreating glaciers to more frequent extreme weather events. Forests are also bearing the brunt of ...

Boreal forests are continuing to shift northward as they warm due to climate change, satellite images taken over the last several decades show. Boreal forests are the world's largest terrestrial biome ...

The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the changing dynamics of boreal forests, Min Feng and colleagues analyzed the biome ...

To understand why forests sit so close to the heart of Russian identity, it helps to start with scale. The country stretches across eleven time zones, and a vast share of that territory is cloaked in ...