As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

A century ago, the forests of the Eastern U.S. looked very different. They were packed with towering chestnut trees. But since then, those trees have largely disappeared, and the forests have evolved ...

Centuries of forestry decisions are colliding with climate reality, and the result is a landscape of dead trees and dying ...

The tall, slender beech trees with their dark green, dense crowns – the very symbol of the temperate forests in Europe – may have disappear from many landscapes by the turn of the next century. Today, ...

Contrary to what is generally assumed, the diversity of qualitative chemicals among species of eastern deciduous forest trees is high. Qualitative defenses (e.g., alkaloids) that supplement ...

Using satellite images, researchers found that fires in North America's boreal forest may be changing the environment in ways that researchers didn't previously anticipate. A new study, using a ...

EAST LANSING, MICH. – A new traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition about the key role of the planet’s boreal forests as a carbon sink will debut its national tour in Michigan. Michigan State ...

• Leaf optical properties impact leaf energy balance and thus leaf temperature. The effect of leaf development on mid-infrared (MIR) reflectance, and hence thermal emissivity, has not been ...