Forest Area Fluctuations: The coniferous forest area in North America increased by 5.62% between 2018-2023 compared to 1984-1991. However, it decreased by 4.85% from its peak in 1992-2001.

Closed forests, or those with tree canopy coverage of 60 to 100 percent, contributed 28.28 percent (1.9 million hectares) to the country's forest cover. The remaining 4.5 percent or 310,593 ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Coniferous / taiga / boreal forest biome. Ferne Corrigan visits Finland to investigate the coniferous forest biome to see how plants and animals have adapted to living there.

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 ...

Canada will soon have the largest protected boreal forest - an area twice the size of Belgium - on the planet. Some 1.6m hectares of remote land in the province of Alberta are being made into new ...

Raleigh, Mark S 1. 1 National Center for Atmospheric Research. Coniferous forest canopies play a significant role in seasonal snowpack development and land-atmosphere feedbacks. Depending on climate, ...