As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...
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 ...
Paper birch, though, is so much more. According to the National Park Service, there is evidence of the trees being used by ...
The Boreal Climate Survivability Project is offering both insight and hope for the future of the Door County's woodlands ...
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 ...
Increasing tree species diversity is widely suggested as a way to help forests withstand climate change – especially prolonged droughts. But a new international study led by the University of Freiburg ...
White-tailed deer have expanded their range in North America over many decades. Since the early-2000s, these deer have moved north into the boreal forests of western Canada. These forests are full of ...
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 ...