From the southernmost edge of the belt in Alaska, the forests are quietly creeping towards the Arctic soils.

Forests are also bearing the brunt of global warming. Scientists recently examined satellite data ranging from 1985 to 2020 and made a striking discovery: that boreal forests, the largest terrestrial ...

Those engineering decisions worsened Katrina’s destruction. They allowed saltwater into freshwater ecosystems around the city, poisoning many of the trees. And so the city was exposed to future ...

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

The world’s largest terrestrial biome is changing fast, so much so that Earth’s appearance from space will be subtly shifting ...

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 ...

A research team from Memorial University’s geography department is hoping to fan out across the province this summer to study ...

Susan Trumbore, a professor of earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, who simultaneously teaches Ph.D students in Germany, studies the carbon cycle and how forests and soils ...

Russia has the largest forest area in the world, accounting for nearly 20% of Earth’s total forest cover. From Siberia’s ...

A new study finds that Canada could remove at least five times its annual carbon emissions with strategic planting of more than six million trees along the northern edge of the boreal forest. The ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

New research finds that tropical forests can grow significantly faster and sequester more climate-warming carbon dioxide when additional nitrogen is available in the soil. “With this information we ...