Soar over the vast Taiga, the world's largest biome, spanning Russia, Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and parts of Mongolia. This breathtaking drone footage captures endless coniferous forests, frozen ...

Terrestrial vegetation and atmospheric photochemistry produce large amounts of fine particles in the atmosphere, thereby cooling Earth's climate. According to new research, the physical state of the ...

For decades, ecologists have differed over a longstanding mystery: Will a longer, climate-induced growing season ultimately help coniferous forests to grow or hurt them? A new CU Boulder study may ...

Emissions of greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the climate, whereas small airborne particles in the atmosphere, aerosols, act as a cooling mechanism. That is the received wisdom in any case.

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

Forest transpiration is a primary component of water- and energy-balance studies as a mechanism for mass and energy transfer. During the winter months, however, there is a period of transpiration ...

The world’s sole pure limestone-based coniferous (Calocedrus rupestris) forest has been found in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, the north central province of Quang Binh. The world’s sole pure ...

(1) When a coniferous forest at Montmorency, Québec was clearcut, the daily net radiation in the summer was reduced by between 10% and 22%. The former value was typical when both forest and ...