Andre is an avid paddler and nearly every weekend he sets out in his canoe or kayak to explore some new destination. He has ...

A new government model to estimate peatland emissions and their impact on climate change could provide a new perspective on ...

Forest degradation is increasingly recognized as a major global threat. Such degradation refers to the gradual erosion of a forest’s ability to store carbon, support biodiversity and sustain ...

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

The country needs to follow Australia’s lead and start using prescribed burns to limit the damage of wildfires ...

Up there, says Victor Bruce, an elder of the Poplar River First Nation. He is pointing above the trees in this boreal forest, where migrating songbirds sing, and fleeting herds of woodland caribou ...

Dan Thompson, a Canadian Forest Service research scientist, surveys fire damage in Wood Buffalo National Park. Credit: Ellen Whitman/Canadian Forest Service/Natural Resources Canada At the Bonanza ...

The boreal forest is a vast landscape of aspen, evergreen and birch trees covering more than half of Canada, but since 1996, 22 million acres — an area roughly the size of Indiana — have been ...

The Boreal forest region of Canada is considered one of the largest untapped forests on Earth. Stretching all across the country’s northern border, the coniferous-filled forest covers over one ...