In the fight against climate change, tree planting as a natural climate solution is a popular policy and land-use initiative ...

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as “Taiga” in North America), offering unprecedented insights into the health and dynamics of ...

20 of the most vulnerable hot spots were home to permafrost, which is rapidly thawing around the Arctic, with others being boreal forests. Map of areas that experienced ecosystem climate stress in ...

While the boreal encompasses about a third of the world’s forests, it also holds more fresh water than any other ecosystem, with vast wetlands and shorelines providing sanctuary for millions of ...

Arctic and boreal latitudes are warming faster than any other region on Earth. In three new studies, Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine report how the ecosystems in ...

Over the course of 2015 through 2019, scientists in the Voyageurs Wolf Project used GPS collars to track 32 gray wolves in the southern boreal ecosystem of northern Minnesota. They examined the ...

Tundra voles are among the small mammals Dr. Phil Manlick, with the U.S. Forest Service, studies to understand how warming is changing boreal and Arctic food webs. Tiny organisms are making big ...

"Understanding how energy moves through food webs helps us understand how ecosystems function and how animals might respond to stressors like climate change," Manlick said. "In Arctic and boreal ...

“In Arctic and boreal ecosystems, it’s well known that the climate is warming, permafrost is melting, and microbes are flourishing. But we know very little about the impacts of this process on ...

Look no further than ectomycorrhizal fungi, which are organisms that colonize the roots of many tree species where the boreal ecosystem (zone encompassing Earth’s northernmost forests ...