Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

The mound was covered with a thick layer of spruce needles and throngs of tiny ... are typically found in Eurasia’s temperate and boreal forests. But in recent decades, more nests have been ...

As you ride up Tumbelina, Panorama or Breezeway lifts at Monarch Mountain, check out the trees beside the lift. You’re likely ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

The older stands are blue magenta. Everything that’s younger is yellows or oranges or light greens. You can color it any way ...

University of Alberta research offers new guidance that can help recover habitat for woodland caribou in forests across the ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

The Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota is considered to be one of the world’s most interesting natural places where you can easily see the inner workings of a boreal forest. It also becomes a ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of material from 11 contributing columnists, along with other commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• When I was a kid, my dad and grandpa ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...

PLENTY OF HUMAN errors helped make this month’s wildfires in Los Angeles County so destructive. Poor urban development and regulations on insurance companies encouraged the region’s vast ...

boreal forests, and wetlands across Earth’s northern regions—has now become a carbon source rather than a sink. This shift occurs because while plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO 2) through ...