An aerial view shows the boat of caribou researcher Jean-Luc Kanape, a member of the Innu Indigenous group, on a waterway in Canada's boreal forest. Even though he lives in the middle of Canada's ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada has long promoted itself globally as a model for protecting one of the country’s most vital natural resources: the world’s largest swath of boreal forest, which is crucial to ...

Devastating wildfires are threatening to destroy Canada’s boreal forest. The boreal forest is the largest carbon store on terrestrial Earth but climate change is causing devastating wildfires and ...

Canada is looking to its Indigenous communities to help manage its boreal forests, the world’s largest intact forest system. Canada's boreal forests are home to the endangered woodland caribou. Credit ...

Robots that can function in the Arctic's extreme storms and cold will become increasingly important for everything from securing and inspecting remote facilities to ensuring northern security, say res ...

The Pew Environment Group released a report earlier this month urging protection of the Canadian boreal, the world's largest intact forest and the biggest carbon sink on land. (Listen to the ...

Even as the thick clouds of smoke from wildfires raging in eastern Canada, which blanketed the U.S. East Coast in a dangerous orange haze, begin to dissipate, researchers are warning it’s a sign of ...

Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband ...