The heat melts the waxy coating and, while the fire may kill the original parent tree, the next generation of seeds survives and grows faster than other saplings in the boreal forest. Jack pines ...

The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband. It acts as the lungs of the planet, producing much of ...

Of these trees, approximately 1.30 trillion exist in tropical and subtropical forests, with 0.74 trillion in boreal regions ...

This remarkable new ... Less Severe Forest Fires Can Reduce Intensity of Future Blazes Aug. 19, 2024 — Low- and moderate-severity forest wildfires can reduce the intensity of future fires ...

At Crossroads at Big Creek, our restoration team is completing the grant close-out reports for our multi-year restoration ...

Regeneration of boreal forests varies in time and space. Temporal variation takes into account such variables as the periodic nature of seed production and changing seedbed conditions. Spatial ...

Looking at the forest regions in ... Found from Canada to subtropical Mexico, it lives in a staggering scope of natural surroundings between the Canadian tundra and the Sonoran Desert; it likewise ...

Canada is now home to the world's largest protected boreal forest Canada will soon have the largest protected boreal forest - an area twice the size of Belgium - on the planet. Some 1.6m hectares ...

Remove this vast area from the data, though, and a very different trend emerges: forest fires are on the rise, particularly in the boreal regions that encircle the Arctic. In boreal North America ...

Once considered a common western garden amphibian, the large, warty boreal toad has recently experienced dramatic population declines, suffering across its U.S. range from threats like habitat ...

Persistent hotter and drier weather due to climate change further fuels fires. In some tropical and subtropical regions, forest fires are mostly intentionally set for land-use change, clearing and ...