For example, when excluding Russia from INTERACT, the vast taiga forest in Siberia is left out of the network," says professor Niels Martin Schmidt, Aarhus University.

Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests ...

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

Increasing forest fires, in the wake of climate change, threaten to undermine this ecosystem service. ... The boreal region, also known as the taiga, serves as an immense global carbon reservoir.

With tropical rainforests, boreal wilderness, and reforested landscapes, these countries have the largest forest cover ...