It could help manage forest fires and improve climate models. Researchers make disturbing discovery about burning events in ...

Also known as the Canadian spruce or the skunk spruce ... of seeds survives and grows faster than other saplings in the boreal forest. Jack pines are widely distributed throughout northern ...

The spruce resin helps to preserve this larder ... With multiple warm winters, the grey jay population has dropped. Canada’s boreal forest is home to an incredible array of iconic species ...

Near timberline, black spruce joins with balsam in a dwarfed and contorted ... Beneath the deep shade of the boreal conifers, the forest floor is cold, dark, and damp. The ground cover varies from ...

Their staccato voices can make a muskeg bog as loud as a city street, though most are so small they could sit in a coffee cup ...

Lee E. Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, explained that the park lies near the ...

Because insects become scarce when the fall chill sets in, wood frogs might eat their numerous, highly available sons and ...

It’s just one tree, but it’s a balsam fir that I planted and get to watch grow knowing I’ve helped Terra Nova National Park ...

Nonprofit forestry certifiers are signing off on the destruction of vast swaths older Canadian woodlands that are critical to containing climate change, Reuters found.

and found that boreal forests in far-northern latitudes may one day act as a climate refuge for black spruce, the foundational tree of the northwoods ecosystem and the most dominant species in ...