Crossing vast tracts of British Columbian wilderness, the Skeena is one of Canada’s most thrilling, and little-known, rail journeys.

In most cases, temperate forests regenerating naturally are of ... or the ice storm in Canada in 1998). Although it can be argued that most are from secondary succession, soils in these forests ...

An agreement covering a vast swath of British Columbia's coast -- twice the size of Vancouver Island -- preserves and protects 85 percent of what is the largest old-growth temperate rain forest on ...

Temperate forests represent about 25 percent of Earth ... The effects of these sorts of fires have been most stark in the western U.S., Canada, and Australia, but they are also becoming more ...

About 340 million hectares of intact forest remain in Canada. More than 90 per cent of that is boreal (the world’s largest intact forest), while the rest is temperate forest in the south. Alberta has ...

In North America, arctic tundra is found in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland ... The boreal forest separates the tundra from the temperate forest. The alternative names for the boreal ...

Boreal forests risk becoming carbon sources; Canada alone clearcuts 1 million ... the degradation of boreal and temperate forests continues apace, threatening their ability to store carbon and ...