Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds

Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times ...

Why boreal forests are expanding northward, scientists say

Boreal forests are continuing to shift northward as they warm due to climate change, satellite images taken over the last several decades show.
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The planet's largest terrestrial biome is on the move – it's heading north at a rapid rate

The world’s largest terrestrial biome is changing fast, so much so that Earth’s appearance from space will be subtly shifting in color. Faced with warming temperatures, boreal forests are gradually ...
Fort Frances Times

Boreal forest tree-planting efforts would pay big dividends, new research finds

Strategically planting trees along the northern edge of Canada’s boreal forest could remove multiple gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the end of the century, according to a new ...
Alaska Public Media

As Alaska's boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...
Mother Jones

Alaska’s Vast Boreal Forest and Its Species Face a Reckoning

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging ...
Science Daily

Boreal forest and tundra regions worst hit over next 500 years of climate change, study shows

Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider of carbon storage and clean water, could be ...
Morning Overview on MSN

World’s forests are mutating at record speed and scientists are alarmed

Across the planet, forests are no longer the relatively stable backdrops they once seemed. From the Amazon to the Arctic, species are shuffling, tree mortality is spiking and fire seasons are ...
EurekAlert!

Boreal and temperate forests now main global carbon sinks

Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team, coordinated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and INRAE, mapped for the first time ...
Star Tribune

In the boreal forests of northern Minnesota, the trees wear beards

With wispy tufts that drape trees like haunted-house cobwebs, old man’s beard lichen can be an unexpected sight in northern Minnesota forests. It resembles a petite version of Spanish moss seen on ...
The Conversation

Protecting boreal plant species is a critical part of reconciliation efforts

Janelle Marie Baker receives funding from ECCC, the Arctic Connections Fund, CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, and Athabasca University. Labrador Tea, fireweed, chokecherry and raspberry are some of the boreal ...
Science Daily

New study shows surprising effects of fire in North America's boreal forests

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, using a ...