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 ...

Record wildfires and rising temperatures are threatening decades of forest growth in the northern hemisphere, potentially ...

The United Nations warned Wednesday that climate change poses a threat to the world's northern forests, saying it was putting the planet's most powerful natural defense at serious risk.

Forests dominated by conifers are often considered more profitable than structured diverse mixed forests. However, their lower susceptibility to disruption could compensate for this in the context of ...

The deep, dark forests of northern Europe supplied people with wood, timber and food for millennia. They gave rise to myths, ...

You don’t need to travel to the Amazon to experience the essence of a primeval forest, a new op-ed argues: Poland’s Białowieża Forest harbors the best-preserved fragments of lowland deciduous and ...

Several European nations such as Italy, France, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain have in recent months struggled to cope ...

KIRUNA, Sweden — Deep in the Swedish forest, where reindeer roam and scientists ski in winter, lies one of Europe’s hopes for a spaceport that can ultimately compete with the United States, China and ...