Boreal forests in Western Canada have evolved to ... and a fifth of them haven't been able to grow more black spruce trees.

This forest community, sometimes called the mountain boreal forest, is comprised largely of conifer tree species. This forest is found ... In the lower portion of the mountain conifer zone, red spruce ...

The research team explored 20 years of tree cover data from satellites to model future shifts. Boreal forests encircle the cold, northern regions of our planet. They host a diverse set of species ...

This is known as a cool temperate climate. The forest is dense and made up of spruce and pine trees, that grow closely together to try and create warmth and survive the cold conditions.

The boreal forest attracts 325 bird species to its ... underneath the bark of the spruce trees in their territory. The spruce resin helps to preserve this larder, and over winter, the jay feeds ...

Conifers such as spruce and pine, essential symbols of the festive season, are adapted to thrive in some of the planet’s harshest conditions. Found predominantly in boreal forests, these trees ...

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 ...

Matt Oakleaf, camera mounted on his gear bag, drops behind the rest of his team to a landing site near smoldering boreal forest ... Flames are shooting up spruce trees and igniting the brittle ...