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

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

A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada's boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University of Alberta study shows.

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

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 ...

A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada's boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting ...

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

Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.

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Forests in the far north aren't standing still. A new analysis of 36 years of satellite imagery finds that the planet's ...