The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband. It acts as the lungs of the planet, producing much of ...

Biologist Stan Boutin with the University of Alberta in Edmonton has spent 30 years studying a population that lives in a ...

Like the ancient mariner surrounded by sea water unfit to drink — “water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink” — living organisms ... in temperate and boreal forests, where the ...

‘When in Finland…’ Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan visits Finland to learn how plants and animals adapt to living in coniferous forests. Ferne is in the Nuuksio National Park in ...

Canada is now home to the world's largest protected boreal forest Canada will soon have the largest protected boreal forest - an area twice the size of Belgium - on the planet. Some 1.6m hectares ...

Reindeer are a species of deer also known as caribou in certain regions. They are found in the Arctic tundra and boreal ...

Isle Royale and surrounding waters are a living lab. The wilderness is home to long-running research on wolf-moose ... Located in the transition zone between the northern hardwood and boreal forest, ...

Instead, as the temperature drops, a different set of species may arrive from the boreal forests and Arctic tundra of the far ...