Prior to the 1970s, the boreal owl was known to breed from Alaska east across all of Canada, but not south of central British Columbia. Researchers then documented it in high elevation spruce and fir ...

Wildfires in the vast and pristine forests of Canada, Europe and the far Northern US could release an enormous amount of planet-warming emissions between now and 2050, putting the world’s climate ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A combined effort by Colorado agencies led to another release of a state-endangered amphibian. The amphibian and aquatic species experts from the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance and ...

The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution into the atmosphere, according ...

Wildlife biologists recently discovered rare toads are naturally repopulating in a high mountain lake where captively raised tadpoles were transplanted for several years. Staff from the Colorado Parks ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." The boreal forest is ...

WASHINGTON — In 2021, wildfires pillaged the world’s carbon-rich snow forests. That year, burning boreal forests released 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, researchers reported March 2 in a ...

Boreal forest covers much of central Alaska. Taiga, as this forest is called, is composed of dense black spruce forests and a mosaic of other forest trees. Aspen and birch thrive on south-facing ...