SHAVER LAKE, Calif. — There’s something eerie about this forest in the southern Sierra Nevada. Tangles of bony branches obscure the ground. Dead trees stand gray and bristly. An aura of doom hangs ...
As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...
A forest community not typically recognized in most descriptions of Adirondack vegetation is the “upper slope hardwood-conifer forest”. This community is very similar to the mixedwood type except red ...
Scientists found that fires in America's dry conifer forests are burning hotter and killing more trees today than in previous centuries. The main culprit? Paradoxically, a lack of fires. In a study ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, in a ...
A warming climate has left a fifth of the conifer forests that blanket California's Sierra Nevada stranded in habitats that no longer suit them, according to a study published last week by researchers ...
Hotter and drier conditions are destroying the ability of many Western conifer forests to spring back after wildfires, a new study has found. The onslaught of destructive fire and climate change risks ...
"The last volume in the series Ecosystems of the world"--Pref. Introduction / F. Andersson and P. Lhoir -- Boreal forests of Eurasia / H. Hytteborn ... [et al.] -- The boreal forests of North America ...