Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." The boreal ...

Within those acres, wildfires incinerated boreal forests ... Dead trees are seen in this aerial view on April 17, 2017, near Fort McMurray, Canada, one year after a large wildfire.

A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery ... the fine-scale dynamics of boreal ecosystems." "The fluctuations we've observed in forest cover, particularly the ...

Using new satellite data analysis ... summer wildfires have expanded in boreal forests, which wrap around the northernmost parts of the Earth. Boreal forest fires usually make up 10% of global ...

For this study, the researchers used 40 years of moderately fine (30m) resolution satellite observations and various geospatial climate-related datasets of the boreal forest and assessed where and ...

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 ...

Our recent studies using satellite data showed that tree growth and tree cover increased from 2000 to 2019 throughout much of the boreal forest. These changes occurred mainly in the coldest ...