One of nature’s woody behemoths — the North American snow forest — may soon begin shrinking. The continent’s boreal forest reposes in subarctic latitudes, spanning much of Alaska and Canada.

A new 1,200 year-long time series based on tree rings shows that the current warming is unprecedented during this period. This is reported by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, ...

Extreme heat waves are on the rise. When do they become critical for forest trees? In the hot summer of 2023, a research team led by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research ...

Each sectioned-off research area, like the one above, has 21 to 24 individual trees, with two-and-half miles of cable laid underneath the artificially heated zones. Since trees take in and use carbon ...