Canada’s immense boreal ... Graham Duggan The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband.

Alberta covers a massive area with diversity that may surprise anyone unfamiliar with the province’s unique geography.

Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest national park. Covering more territory than Switzerland, it sprawls across northeastern Alberta and ... a remote corner of the boreal forest every summer.

The boreal forest is the largest forest system on earth. It circumnavigates the Northern Hemisphere ... and the extraction of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada — which produces 58 percent ...

Edmonton: Government of Alberta. Lee P ... Recent anthropogenic changes within the northern boreal, southern taiga, and Hudson Plains ecozones of Quebec. Edmonton: Global Forest Watch Canada.

A new study in Science examined more than 26,000 trees across an area the size of Spain (583,000 square kilometers) and found that boreal forests in far-northern ... of western Canada and Alaska ...

The growing intensity of Canada’s wildfires Wildfires during the summer months in the country's boreal forests - northern forests made up of deciduous trees and conifers - are normal and common ...

A May report from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC ... Wilderness Society in northern Alberta. “There’s a distinct lack of action across the country.” Boreal caribou have been ...

The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about ... tree cover data from satellites to model future shifts. Boreal forests encircle the cold, northern regions of our planet.

Boreal forests, also known as taiga, are the world’s biggest biome and cover subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. Canada’s nearly 700-million-acre boreal forest, which is about 28 per ...