The scale of Alberta’s oil sands operations, the world's largest industrial project, is hard to grasp. Especially north of Fort McMurray, where the boreal forest has been razed and bitumen is ...

the University of Alberta, and Environment and Climate Change Canada -- wanted to evaluate why deer densities in the boreal forest are rapidly increasing. Over the past century, white-tailed deer ...

Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta in summer ... to the atmosphere from boreal forest fires themselves, the loss ...

We're talking about the boreal forest ... at the University of Alberta. When the mercury climbs, evaporation happens more readily and plants lose water at a high rate through transpiration.

Dead tree trunks stretch towards the sky -- ghostly white shadows staining the green canopy in this corner of Alberta ... boreal forest, drought has reduced stands of trees to shrubs and high ...