This giant forest is vulnerable ... negatively impacting everything from food production to water supply. The boreal wetlands, lakes and rivers filter billions of litres of fresh water, with ...

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

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

concluding that beavers are a primary disturbance agent of boreal wetlands. Their actions produce copious amounts of dead wood in boreal forests that are currently highly managed and have consequently ...

The mosaic of temperate forest and boreal forest found in the region provides a unique ecological condition ... An array of communities thatincludes open river floodplains, sphagnum bogs, large ...

boreal forests, and wetlands that make up Earth’s northern latitudes—is now a source of carbon to the atmosphere. That balance sheet is made up of carbon dioxide (CO₂) uptake from plant ...

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the ...

boreal forests, and wetlands that make up Earth's northern latitudes—is now a source of carbon to the atmosphere. That balance sheet is made up of carbon dioxide (CO 2) uptake from plant ...