A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions. By Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai Ian ...

Canada is home to the largest boreal forest in the world, a vast expanse of wilderness rich in biodiversity that stretches from coast to coast. But a major new study examining nearly a half ...

a major logging province. The analysis found that about 30% of the certified boreal forests harvested from 2016 to 2020 were at least 100 years old. That resulted in the loss of 377 square miles ...

At the moment, as a nation whose total contribution of greenhouse gases is minimal, all we can do is throw everything we’ve ...

The continent’s boreal forest reposes in subarctic ... precipitation and disturbances like wildfires and logging. Overall, the forest’s tree cover increased, mostly within its northern interior.

while wildfires and logging contributed to tree cover loss. Satellite data makes it clear that climate change is affecting both the northern and southern margins of the boreal forest. However ...

In the boreal forest, the world’s largest land biome ... species have lost 36 percent of their carbon-sinking capacity as logging, wildfires, pests, and drought devastated the land.

While logging industries tout replanting cut-down ... He also emphasizes that the Boreal forests in particular hold one of the largest stores of carbon on the planet. Known as a carbon sink ...

Environmental groups Forest Ethics (now named Stand.Earth) and Greenpeace were sued by logging company Resolute Forestry Products for criticizing the impact of the company’s boreal forest logging on ...

Intense, persistent heat waves and severe drought are making devastating forest fires more likely. But new approaches can ...

The North American boreal forest contains approximately 277 billion trees, 31% more than previous estimates, based on advanced machine learning analysis of extensive tree plot data.

Researchers led by a group from Griffith University in Australia found that since 1976 logging in the two provinces has caused the removal of 35.4 million acres of boreal forest, an area roughly ...