On these March nights, a male boreal owl has been singing from a wooden owl box near our home. The late biologist Dave Klein attached the nest box to a black spruce tree north of the University of ...

Spreading over continents and covering many countries, the boreal plays a significant role in the planet's biodiversity and even its climate. Here are 30 facts to know about this incredible space.

As omnivores, their diets can vary widely by species and habitat. Bears in the taiga may eat anything from roots, nuts, and berries to rodents, salmon, and carrion. Boreal forests host both of ...

There's an entire cycle of life that helps some wildlife thrive when the boreal forest burns, but experts say climate change ...

In the boreal forest of Western Canada, researchers have considered that both changing climate and increased habitat alteration have enabled deer to push farther north. As the climate changes ...

Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridgetop north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, on July 2, 2023. Fire is part of the ecology of boreal forests, but climate change is ...

Former Premier Danny Williams has donated a parcel of his family’s land to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. The 185 acre ...

Ontario is failing to effectively protect some of the critical habitat for boreal caribou, Guilbeault has warned in a letter to the province obtained by The Canadian Press. THE CANADIAN PRESS ...

The boreal toad is a native to Colorado's wetlands. But the amphibian's numbers have been decimated the last 20 years by habitat loss and more significantly by the chytrid fungus. The National ...

However, in boreal peatland forests—those in wetlands like bogs—the level of passive recovery was predicted to be much lower, ...