If you drive north from just about any city in Canada, you'll end up in the boreal forest. This vast woodland is home to many of Canada’s iconic animals and hosts 300 species of migratory birds ...

Other countries like Japan, the USA, Canada, Russia and other parts ... can penetrate through the canopy. On the forest floor only a few herbaceous plants can grow and survive the low light ...

The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about ... tree cover data from satellites to model future shifts. Boreal forests encircle the cold, northern regions of our planet.

A new study in Science examined more than 26,000 trees across an area the size of Spain (583,000 square kilometers) and found that boreal forests in ... of western Canada and Alaska this past ...