Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, ...

What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

Imagine peering into the wild forests of Russia’s Far East and spotting a golden, ghost-like feline slipping silently through ...

The boreal forest is dominated by coniferous trees that are very well adapted to these conditions. Conifers are evolutionarily older than broad-leaved deciduous trees.

No one needs to tell the Amur tiger that species worldwide are endangered. A resident of Russia’s far-eastern taiga forests, the tigers are severely threatened by insatiable and generally ...

When it comes to finding the perfect Christmas tree, William Lyon has it down to a science. Every year, Lyon downloads official maps of U.S. Forest Service roads — Apple and Google maps never ...

North America's Boreal Forest Is Still Smaller Than Its 1990s Peak The new study used 24,000 satellite images taken over 4 decades to track North America's taiga tree cover.

In natural forests, they were able to show accelerating declines in productivity as the forest loses more tree species. Based on their calculations, the value of tree species biodiversity is $166 ...

Boreal forest covers much of central Alaska. Taiga, as this forest is called, is composed of dense black spruce forests and a mosaic of other forest trees. Aspen and birch thrive on south-facing ...