As you wander through the forests of the northern US states and southern Canada, you may have heard a strange drumming noise.

There are many different types of forests with different types of trees. Learn more about a few types of forests and the trees that populate them. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org ...

The spruce budworm is a native forest insect causing concern across Minnesota’s coniferous forests since at least 1954.

Imagine the coniferous forests of the American West and you probably picture tall trees, forest floors littered with pine needles and pinecones, black bears, mountain lions, croaking frogs, and ...

Giant pandas live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understories of bamboo. These forests are at elevations ranging between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, says Smithsonian.

Forest management guidelines and forestry subsidies to be reformed The forest sector needs a holistic understanding of soil carbon sequestration potential.

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 ...

Climate change is transforming the Earth, particularly in high-latitude regions. The boreal coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere will witness an increased abundance of deciduous trees. This ...

For decades, ecologists have differed over a longstanding mystery: Will a longer, climate-induced growing season ultimately help coniferous forests to grow or hurt them? A new CU Boulder study may ...

Unpublished data support the idea that a shift from deciduous to coniferous forests could increase local temperature, says Alessandro Cescatti, an ecologist at the European Commission’s Joint ...

Coniferous forest canopies play a significant role in seasonal snowpack development and land-atmosphere feedbacks. Depending on climate, storm dynamics, and forest characteristics, melt or sublimation ...