True, there have been fires in Canada's boreal forest for ages.
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In Alaska, boreal forests pushed north and west, crowding out tundra.
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Boreal forests are distinct from tropical forests, closer to the Equator.
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Boreal forests are distinct from tropical forests, closer to the Equator.
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Most of the pulp is likely to go to China, Boreal said.
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You can still find rusting jeeps out there in the boreal forest.
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In northern Minnesota, the boreal forest has slowly been invaded by earthworms.
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I walked off the road and into a thicket of boreal forest.
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Scientists have been trying for years to call attention to the boreal forest.
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Boreal forests are distinct from tropical forests, which are closer to the Equator.
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The estuary straddles the tree line — the border between Arctic tundra and boreal forest.
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It's in Canada and they're cutting down the old boreal forest to do it.
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One spark can grow quickly here, in boreal Canada, where forests surround the town.
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No mechanism exists to eradicate earthworms from the boreal forest; their impact is permanent.
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Extraction from the oil sands, situated in the sub-Arctic boreal forest, is expensive.
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The global boreal forest is a muscular part of Earth's carbon cycle; at least one-fifth of the carbon that cycles through air, soil and oceans passes through the boreal, said Sylvie Quideau, a soil biogeochemist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
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It is fire season in Siberia, which means vast tracts of boreal forests are ablaze.
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And they form a northern belt, the boreal forests of Canada, Russia, Alaska and Scandinavia.
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Climate change is a prime suspect in a rise of wildfires in the boreal forest.
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If the Boreal Dancer got in through a portal, how'd she get the portal in?
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Arctic birds, boreal forest birds, western forest birds and waterbirds are the most susceptible groups.
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Boreal forests and western forests were the next two habitats to suffer the greatest losses.
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Wood frogs waited in tundra ponds, magpies in shrub thickets, red squirrels in boreal woods.
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Collectively, boreal forests lock away about 563 gigatons of carbon in woody fibers and soil.
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NASA scientists conducted similar research using geospatial data as part of its Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.
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This spongy layer of leaf litter contains most of the carbon stored in the boreal soil.
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Currently, the boreal absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it adds, but that is changing.
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In Canada, the ancient boreal forest is being mowed down for the sake of toilet tissue.
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Implementation of Motion 65 would require companies seeking certification to set aside new swaths of the Canadian boreal for conservation, in addition to the 42 percent of continuous boreal forest that lies north of the area where Quebec allows forestry for the purpose of supplying mills.
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Temperate forests have 212 billion trees and boreal forests in the far north have another 25 billion.
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They were alarmed at what they found: Deserts, grasslands, tropical and boreal forests are all rapidly disappearing.
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This rampant destruction has also reduced the natural carbon sequestration abilities that boreal forests have historically served.
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Boreal forests are dying off, potentially tipping from a net carbon sink into a net carbon source.
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We would leave at sunrise and plunge into the boreal forest, following trails and old seismic lines.
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So companies cast an eye on the vast oil sands buried beneath the boreal forests in Alberta, Canada.
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Most of the remaining land is desert and tundra, with some slices of boreal forestland and remote jungle.
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The boreal forest of the Mezensky district in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, teems with wild reindeer, wolverines, and grouse.
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Boreal forests ring the globe just under the Arctic Circle, stretching across Canada, Alaska, Siberia and Northern Europe.
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Their fiber is often taken from the boreal forest, so reducing home use can help protect the trees.
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Boreal forests ring the globe just under the Arctic Circle, stretching across Alaska, Canada, Siberia and northern Europe.
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Boreal forests ring the globe just under the Arctic Circle, stretching across Canada, Alaska, Siberia and northern Europe.
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Nearly all the projects are surrounded by dense boreal forest that provided ample fuel for last year's blaze.
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The surrounding area is wilderness too — a sprawling land of untouched boreal forest and tundra, rivers and mountains.
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Forests cover 31% of the Earth's land surface, and there are three distinct types: tropical, temperate, and boreal (taiga).
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Se espera que el músico de 75 años vuelva a los escenarios en el verano boreal, dijo Drudge Report.
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The northern or boreal forest covers 270 million hectares (1 million square miles), stretching across most of northern Canada.
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As Canadians, we are the custodians of one of the most important forest in the world, the Boreal forest.
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Mr. McIntosh says the fall recipe, topped with wild cranberries, is meant to honor the boreal forest's autumn harvest.
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To his horror, Dr. Yoo also found earthworms right on the edge of the permafrost in the northern boreal.
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His biggest concern is that earthworms will penetrate even further north in the boreal and spread into the permafrost.
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Polfus's DNA tests revealed three genetically distinct forms of caribou — boreal woodland caribou, barren-ground caribou, and mountain caribou.
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In addition, due to a warmer, drier climate, the tundra and northern boreal forest are experiencing unprecedented fire seasons.
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Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box.
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Even under the most pessimistic carbon emissions scenarios, the study predicts that a boreal forest refuge area will remain intact.
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Critics also say restoring a piece of developed land to its native boreal forest condition, like this, is not realistic.
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The 3.5-million-acre boreal spruce-fir forest between Moosehead Lake and the Canadian border was undeveloped at the time.
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In addition, when you think of permafrost regions, you might think of featureless tundras, but most is actually boreal forest.
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There we boarded a lumbering Bombardier turboprop plane and watched the boreal forest give way to treeless, rocky tundra below.
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Think of a bald eagle and you probably imagine a beautiful raptor, wings spread wide, soaring high above a boreal forest.
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Vast fires burning both boreal forest and peat soils have consumed parts of eastern Siberia, Alaska and even Greenland since June.
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In the case of boreal forest fires in Alaska, recent activity is unprecedented in the context of the past 10,000 years.
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In the boreal region, forests protect permafrost, which, if it thaws, will be a huge source of heat-trapping methane emissions.
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This process, combined with the effects of warming over time, may slowly transform Minnesota's boreal forest into prairie, Mr. Wackett said.
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Boreal forests stretch across Canada, Alaska, Siberia and Northern Europe, and, together, they form a giant reservoir that stores carbon dioxide.
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The last great forest frontier regions of the Amazon, the Congo, the boreal, and beyond have been absorbing carbon as they grow.
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Hughes said the unique topography of the high boreal habitat presents challenges to carrying out population inventories and research on grizzly bears.
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Fires have been ravaging vast swaths of boreal forests in northern latitudes around the world, with climate change often a major factor.
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Reusable cloth towels are a great alternative, said Shelley Vinyard, who heads the boreal forest program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Further south in the boreal forest, warming, drying, and an uptick in convective cloud cover and lightning strikes are having another stark impact.
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Rising temperatures have seen the population of caribou - an important food source for indigenous people in Canada's northern boreal and Arctic regions - crash.
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All told, he sees earthworms as another factor — if not the main one — nudging the boreal toward becoming a global source of carbon.
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Holiday firs bring the scents, hues and textures of the great boreal forest, storehouse of carbon and home to billions of migratory animals.
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They traveled from their flat boreal forests homes to the rugged rain forests in southern British Columbia and Idaho where mountain caribou live.
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The study found the least modified biomes tend to be in high latitudes and include tundra, boreal forests, or taiga and temperate coniferous forests.
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He's been studying the peatlands that pepper the Canadian boreal forest for going on thirty years, and he's begun to notice an alarming trend.
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The waterlogged peatlands that pepper the Canadian boreal forest, for instance, are now drying out and igniting for the first time in living memory.
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The resinous trees of the boreal zone become more susceptible to fire, and lightning sets off intense fires that are nearly impossible to control.
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Climate scientists are worried they could convert the boreal forest, now a carbon sponge ringing the top of the globe, into a carbon spout.
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But it would have also slashed through 22040,000 acres of boreal forest and released millions of tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide every year.
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Severe wildfires have expanded their reach in recent years, including throughout the Amazon rainforest and the carbon-rich boreal forests of Siberia and Alaska.
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Instead, the oil is mixed up with the dirt in Alberta's boreal forest (underneath a bunch of trees) which makes extracting it very difficult.
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One of the weirdest and least understood of these climate-related side effects is that Arctic boreal lakes are boiling over with methane bubbles.
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"We have agreed on the timetable, and aim to make the final investment decision by the end of 2017," Boreal CEO Heikki Nivala told Reuters.
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In the heart of Siberia's boreal forest gapes a monstrous chasm local Yakutians call a "gateway to the underworld," connecting this life to the next.
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In retrospect, it is clear that Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, was particularly vulnerable as one of the largest human outposts in the boreal forest.
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The boreal forest consists mainly of cone-bearing trees like pines, spruces and larches, adapted to survive the long, cold winters of the northern region.
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In a boreal forest, those components are distinct, with a thick layer of rotting leaves, mosses and fallen wood on top of the mineral soil.
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Arctic and boreal permafrost hold vast amounts of ancient carbon and could significantly increase the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere if they thaw.
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The Nenets are the largest of Russia's indigenous populations, a community of about 45,000 people scattered across the boreal forests and frozen tundra of the Arctic.
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Birds like the bobolink, a grassland bird that nests in tall prairie grasses in Illinois and Minnesota, are predicted to move northward into the boreal forest.
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Adding to residents' concerns, the city is nestled among prime bear habitat in northern Alberta's lush boreal forests, said University of Alberta conservation biologist Lee Foote.
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The heat, combined with dry conditions to transform the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box at an unusually early time of year.
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If half of the TMX's 8.73,28.7 barrels a day comes from surface mining, approximately 2675,2105 hectares of boreal forest and peatland will have to be mined.
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If you can beat the Dancer of the Boreal Valley, or drop 20,000 souls on the Crest of Artorias, the game will let you move forward.
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I spent most of my childhood years adventuring in the boreal forests and playing in streams, but naturally things became more complicated as I got older.
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After dinner the croo offers educational talks on subjects ranging from alpine vegetation and boreal forests to the hydroelectric system used at one of the huts.
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The biosphere tipping points involve the devastation of boreal forests, the Amazon rainforest, warm-water coral reefs, and the thawing of frozen soil known as permafrost.
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And as a result, the blazes in the boreal forests of Canada's northwest are getting worse, said Mike Flannigan, a wildfire researcher at the University of Alberta.
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A study in 2013 suggests that even the amount of burning seen in boreal regions in recent decades was outside the norm for the past 10,000 years.
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ANNIE PROULX'S new work is a tribute to the world's boreal forests, an intricately detailed narrative of geography, history and humanity that is both exhilarating and mesmerising.
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Scientists say the havoc in Fort McMurray, Alberta, from a wildfire last week is a signal that the vital boreal forest is at risk from climate change.
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It was built by Paraguayan prisoners during the Chaco War, a conflict fought between Bolivia and Paraguay for control of the Chaco Boreal region in the 200s.
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There is some debate over the degree to which pulp and paper products, like the disposable towels in your kitchen, drive logging activity in the boreal forest.
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But Russia's boreal forest is allowed to grow back after logging and fires, making the process less damaging than clearing tropical rain forest for farming or ranching.
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According to the report, Arctic and boreal permafrost holds up to 1,600 gigatons of organic carbon, which is almost twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
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Scientists have been studying this phenomenon on the ground for years, but now NASA is pioneering some space-down views with the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).
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The data show that some of the most sensitive areas are those already experiencing changes, including the Arctic tundra, parts of the boreal forest and tropical rain forests.
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The boreal forest holds almost twice as much carbon as is in the world's oil reserves, most of which is stored in the forest's soils, not its trees.
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Scientists say the near-destruction of Fort McMurray last week by a wildfire is the latest indication that the vital boreal forest is at risk from climate change.
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The boreal forest in Canada is home to more than 600 communities of indigenous people whose traditional ways of life are threatened by intensive logging, the report said.
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On a warm morning in the boreal forests around Fairbanks, Loranty squeezed between two black spruce trees and motioned to all the woody debris scattered on the ground.
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The thousand miles of river valley before the delta, from Fort Providence to Tsiigehtchic, mostly consists of dug-out canyon rimmed with the black spruce of the boreal forest.
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Zooming out, about one-third Earth's vegetated lands experienced greening, including a conspicuous portion of North America stretching from southern Mexico to high into the boreal forests of Canada.
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The United States is literally "flushing forests down the toilet," according to a recent report that outlined the negative effects of the toilet paper industry on Canada's boreal woods.
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Although the three types generally occupy distinct habitat, they often overlap in the boreal forest, bewildering wildlife biologists who aren't sure where one subspecies' range ends and others' begin.
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The amount of land available for growing crops is also set to increase, the adaptation plan said, while livestock breeding could become more efficient and boreal forests grow faster.
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Much of the lumber in the United States comes from the boreal forest of Canada, which industry is clearcutting at a rate of more than a million acres every year.
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"Franklin Pierce has the wrong color hair," said Bruce Larson, a professor of political science at Gettysburg College, who had come to case the collection on a boreal winter day.
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The warming has triggered large-scale insect disturbances and fires in North American boreal forests "potentially turning some regions from a carbon sink to a carbon source," the team said.
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Conversely, some of the famous boreal breeding birds — American three-toed woodpecker, spruce grouse and Cape May warbler — have all but disappeared, their breeding ranges having withdrawn northward into Canada.
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Animals like the snowshoe hare, found in the boreal forests of Alaska, undergo a seasonal molt from brown in the summer to white in the winter to camouflage with their environment.
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Large wildfires are not unusual in Siberia's boreal forests, but in the past few years, this sparsely-populated region has seen some of the most intense summertime conflagrations in its history.
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In the boreal forest spruce-beetle populations are also rocketing; in the southern pinyon pine forests a hungry bug called pinyon ips, not formerly known to kill trees, is killing many.
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Alaska, home to most of the boreal forest in the United States, had its second-largest fire season on record in 2015, with 768 fires burning more than five million acres.
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As it turns out, most of the invading earthworms in the North American boreal appear to be the type that love to devour leaf litter and stay above ground, releasing carbon.
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Hundreds of millions of birds pour down from Canada's boreal forests, winging their way south along the Atlantic Coast toward tropical destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central and South America.
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Simultaneously, the southern boreal forest is on the verge of a massive bark beetle invasion that could ravage the dominant evergreen tree ecosystem, which extends across large parts of both countries.
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The wildfire that destroyed about 10 percent, or 2,400, of the homes and buildings in Fort McMurray, Alberta, continues to churn its way through the dense, dry boreal forests outside the city.
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Created especially for the BAMPFA exhibition, Vicuña's "Burnt Quipu" (2018) evokes smoke through its filaments, alluding to forest fires from California to the Amazon to the Boreal Forest to Chile and beyond.
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Tropical and boreal forests are carbon sinks: They absorb up to 40 percent of the carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere, thereby preventing it from causing rapid warming of the planet.
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Authorities are already taking note: As a result of Polfus's research, the Sahtú Renewable Resources Board has pledged to use the Dene word for boreal woodland caribou, tǫdzı, in all official correspondence.
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Some of those come from the boreal forests of Canada, which are exceedingly old trees that, when cut, leave the forest bare and unable to recover, a major problem for the ecosystem there.
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"Generally, the scientific community agrees that because boreal forests are constrained by low temperatures, they should see some benefits from global warming," lead author Loïc D'Orangeville of the University of Quebec told Gizmodo.
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For example: Increases in leaf abundance in boreal forests causes a significant increase in global warming, because that part of the Earth grows darker and doesn't reflect as much sunlight back into space.
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Ms. Genest, author of "The Boreal Gourmet: Adventures in Northern Cooking," drizzles the results of this recipe for drunken cranberries over pumpkin custard, and she recommends using the leftover mixture for a cocktail.
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"There's approximately 1,000 billion metric tons of organic carbon in the top three meters of soil in the permafrost," said Charles Miller, the lead NASA climate scientist with the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.
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"Much of the boreal forest burns more and more often, and when the ecosystem burns, it can actually accelerate the permafrost thaw," says David Olefeldt of University of Alberta, coauthor on the paper.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council has a harrowing report on the (systematically undercounted) amount of GHGs being released by clearcutting in Canada's boreal forest, as intact ecosystems are replaced by managed forest monocrops.
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Boreal and temperate forests account for a third of the world's forest areas, and if they adapt their respiration rates in the way this study suggests, the forests, the planet's lungs, can breathe easy.
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In the Alberta boreal forest, there is a narrow window after the snow melts, but before the leaves and brush green up, with an abundance of dry fire fuel—think dead leaves and grass.
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They're awaiting the results from their second yearly flight over the boreal forests of northern Alaska to look for changes in the layer of frozen soil at the root of the problem: melting permafrost.
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Skiers may already be familiar with Woodward — four POWDR resorts, including Boreal Mountain in California and Copper Mountain in Colorado, previously included Woodward features ranging from one-off "pop-up parks" to half pipes.
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Starting in boreal forest, passing through Arctic tundra and ending on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, the road will be elevated above the permafrost, separated by a layer of quarried rock and protective fabric.
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Inching my Communist relic through the unpeopled, snowbound vastness of the Eurasian boreal forest — the largest terrestrial eco-region on earth, our planet's default state on dry land — was a journey into unplumbed personal depths.
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The boreal forest in Quebec, which is full of black spruce trees, is absolutely huge—it's "about the size of Spain," Loïc D'Orangeville, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal, told me.
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Peat forms in waterlogged regions where plants add lots of organic material to the soil, but where decomposition is inhibited by a lack of oxygen (and, in the case of boreal and tundra peatlands, low temperatures).
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Cindy Shaw, a carbon-research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, studies the boreal forest — the world's most northerly forest, which circles the top of the globe like a ring of hair around a balding head.
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His fear is that the growing incursion of earthworms — not just in North America, but also in northern Europe and Russia — could convert the boreal forest, now a powerful global carbon sponge, into a carbon spout.
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Last summer, Mr. Wackett and his supervisor, Kyungsoo Yoo, a soil scientist at the University of Minnesota, found that invasive earthworms also have spread to parts of Alaska's boreal forest, including the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
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The aircraft measurements, which include more of Alaska and were taken from 2012 to 2014, suggest that the boreal forest covering much of the southern half of the state remains a net storehouse of carbon dioxide.
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While the rest of the world grapples with the damaging effects of climate change—wildfires, drought, the list goes on—northeastern parts of the boreal forest could actually stand to benefit, according to his latest research.
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Boreal forests in northern parts of Europe, Russia and Canada can take up to two years to recover from drought, partly because they do not have a wide variety of plants, Anderegg told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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While the boreal forest's southern and western regions are likely to struggle with drought in a hotter future, parts of eastern Canada north of the 49th parallel could see a net benefit as the growing season lengthens.
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Boreal forests and arctic tundra cover 33% of global land area and store an estimated 50% of total soil carbon, so increased wildfires there would likely have global implications, according to an article in the journal Ecography.
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"This means limiting or ending the practice of building in areas deemed high risk by flood mapping and having a hard discussion about where to build in areas that are close to our boreal forests," he said.
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In logged areas of the boreal forest, trees are replanted and allowed to regenerate, and the country boasts a very low official deforestation rate of just 0.02 percent (though that has been disputed by some environmental groups).
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But, while the boreal forest in western North America is expected to be under an increasing amount of strain—hot, dry weather creates conditions ripe for forest fires—the picture in the east is a bit different.
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Rafael had taken him many times out to the boreal thickness of the interior, and they'd watched the brown bears swipe for salmon in the raging rivers, their great paws some extension of predatory agility and natural power.
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The train tracks running over muskeg and the frozen soil of the boreal forest to Churchill from the nearest town to the south, Gillam, 239 miles away, were washed out in 252 places, according to their American corporate owner.
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CreditCreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times Moments after parking our car and loading into a compact, one-propeller bush plane, my three friends and I were looking down at a lush boreal landscape, newly green after the long winter.
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He is anxious to complete the five-mile defensive buffer he and his 66 firefighters are carving into the boreal forest to stop fire, which has consumed 11,0003 acres since it was started by a lightning strike three weeks ago.
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A new study in Scientific Reports describes lakes in northern Canada's Boreal Shield that are similar to oceans during the Archean Eon period, when microbial life on Earth was still in a primordial stage, and could exist essentially without oxygen.
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But the increases have significantly different impacts on the planet's climate depending on whether it's happening in boreal forests in places like Canada and the Arctic or arid regions like the sub-tropics in and around the Horn of Africa.
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A new study in Scientific Reports describes lakes in northern Canada's Boreal Shield that are similar to oceans during the Archean Eon period, when microbial life on Earth was still in a primordial stage, and could exist essentially without oxygen.
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"Fire is really a true wildcard in climate change and its impacts on ecosystems," said Charles Miller, science co-lead for the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who just returned from a research trip to Alaska.
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"The average American consumer doesn't think about how their toilet paper is made," said Shelley Vinyard, a co-author of the report and campaign manager of the NRDC's boreal corporate campaign, on a conference call with members of the media.
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Scientists say that in the longer term the warming temperatures could threaten cold-weather hardwoods like the blazing maples, pushing their southern border north and narrowing the band in which they can survive between the temperate and circumpolar boreal forests.
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Almost a third of all long-distance migratory birds that breed in the boreal forest are considered to be of high conservation concern, according to the 2016 State of North America's Birds report, published by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative.
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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013 found that boreal forests, which form a ring around the world just below the Arctic Circle, have been burning at rates that are unprecedented in 10,000 years.
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It was late afternoon when the small plane dipped through a thick, low-lying cloud layer and I saw boreal forest — part of a vast biome that stretches across northern North America and Eurasia — as far as the eye could see.
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In fact, he argues that Quebec's massive boreal forest could provide a much-needed "refuge" for plants and animals, as much of the continent gets hotter and drier, creating a latitudinal shift that drives the ranges of various species farther north.
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Warmer and wetter permafrost landscapes can transition into fully-fledged wetlands; this is already being witnessed through the expansion of open water ponds and so-called "thermokarst" features on Alaska's North Slope, and the dieback of waterlogged boreal forests in northwestern Canada.
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Being the world's greatest, most authentic rockstar himself, it's only fitting that Kanye West joins the ranks of these white men by deleting his socials and possibly journeying to the boreal forests of Wyoming in order to find himself and, possibly, Yeezus Jesus.
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In fact, the level of fire activity across the boreal forests, which stretch from Alaska to Canada and around the top of the world to Scandinavia and Russia, is unprecedented in the past 10,000 years, according to a study published in 2013.
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In the northern rainforests of Alaska and across the boreal zone (the largest expanse of forests on Earth), a warming climate is aiding the northward migration of insects that attack the trees, increasing dead woody material that becomes fuel for fires to spread.
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Other feedbacks include Amazon rainforest and boreal forest dieback (when an entire forest suddenly dies from drought or some other cause), the reduction of northern hemisphere snow cover, Antarctic sea ice and polar ice sheets, and loss of Arctic summer sea ice.
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In fact, the level of fire activity across the boreal forests, which stretch from Alaska to Canada and around the top of the world to Scandinavia and Russia, is unprecedented in the past 10,000 years, according to a study published in 2013.
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Those who settled there were trained engineers, refugees from war-torn countries and strivers from across Canada and beyond, drawn to a dot on the map in northern Alberta, a city carved out of boreal forest in a region gushing with oil riches.
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If you're in North America, some of the fiber in your paper towels (and other tissue products like toilet paper) probably started off as a tree in the boreal forest of northern Canada, one of the last big, intact forests in the world.
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Nearly half of the city's 2,550 hotel rooms stood empty last year compared with a third in 2014, as did camps in the muskeg and boreal forest surrounding the city that housed tens of thousands of the fly-in-fly-out workers.
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The agreement was originally the result of a lawsuit brought against Quebec by the James Bay Cree, but both band leaders and environmentalists now say the pact does too little to protect parts of the Boreal forest that are home to the province's woodland caribou.
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The near-destruction of a Canadian city last week by a fire that sent almost 90,20003 people fleeing for their lives is grim proof that the threat to these vast stands of spruce and other resinous trees, collectively known as the boreal forest, is real.
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In the vast boreal forests and tundra of the Northwest Territories, the federal and territorial governments are spending about $1133 million to build a 93-mile all-season highway to a small Inuit village on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, replacing an ice road.
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Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and shot in black and white—which makes the boreal woods of Siberia look like a bristling ocean—Letter Never Sent is a dark, brooding film that doubles as a subtle parody of Soviet Union ideals like altruism and resolve.
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CALGARY, Alberta/HOUSTON (Reuters) - In the boreal forests and on the remote prairies of Alberta, a handful of firms are running pilot projects they hope will end a two-decade drought in innovation and stem the exodus of top global energy firms from Canada's oil sands.
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Scientists are still trying to reconstruct a longer fire history for the boreal region, using information like tree rings and lake deposits of soot, but limited evidence from Alaska suggests that fires in at least part of that state are at their worst in 10,000 years.
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At two forest-research sites in Minnesota, scientists tested how the respiration rates of 10 different species of trees — from boreal and temperate forests — were affected by increases in temperature over a period of three to five years, using heating cables to warm some of the trees.
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In desperation, I reached out to a few botanists for help; they helped me understand that the trees present in the background were either spruce or fir trees, and that those species are common in the boreal forest biome typical of Siberia, so that checks out.
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They have altered not just the depth of the leaf litter but also the types of plants the forest supports, said Adrian Wackett, who studied earthworms in the North American and European boreal forest for his master's degree at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.
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Las manifestaciones, a menudo violentas, de la comunidad gay en el verano boreal de 1969, que surgieron tras una redada policial en el Stonewall Inn, un bar de ambiente homosexual en el Greenwich Village de Nueva York, son consideradas un momento crucial en la historia del movimiento LGBT.
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Single-use tissue products such as toilet paper used in the United States are made from wood pulp, mostly derived from logging in the old-growth northern, or boreal, forest in Canada, where logging companies clear cut more than a million acres (405,000 hectares) every year, the NRDC said.
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The most pronounced spike in my heart rate doesn't happen fighting the gigantic, skeletal High Lord Wolnir with his stupid explosive jewelry, or because of the nasty Lovecratian jump scare on the bridge to Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, or facing goddamn fucking Aldrich (Devourer of Gods), oh no.
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Ella describe así el momento en que lo vio interactuar con el gato por primera vez: "Vi sus ojos verdes y traviesos que miraban los suyos, tristes y hermosos; parecía que había fuegos artificiales y unicornios que saltaban junto a la aurora boreal que aparecía entre los dos".
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"Industrial logging claims more than a million acres of boreal forest every year, equivalent to seven National Hockey League rinks each minute, in part to meet demand for tissue products in the United States," said the report, which was jointly authored by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Stand.
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A long brewing dispute over the largest undisturbed boreal forest on Earth, nearly 2-million square miles of pines and firs stretched across northern Canada, began to heat up this week when 13 American environmental advocacy groups wrote the governments of Ontario and Quebec urging them to support new conservation efforts.
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Erin K. Cameron, an environmental scientist at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who studies the boreal incursion of earthworms, found that 99.8 percent of the earthworms in her study area in Alberta belonged Dendrobaena octaedra, an invasive species that eats leaf litter but doesn't burrow into the soil.
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The wildfire that continues to rage throughout the Fort McMurray, Alberta area, prompting at least 80,000 people to flee the flames in the largest fire-related evacuation in Alberta's history, is no fluke in this era of megafires across the American West and the mighty Boreal forests of Canada, Alaska and Russia.
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Boreal forests are expected to see some of the largest temperature increases of the 21st century, which is likely to mean more warm, dry days and large, out-of-control fires—such as the megafire that devastated Fort McMurray early last month and continues to rage across hundreds of thousands of acres.
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Most visitors come to Olkhon, a mix of craggy mountains, thick boreal forests and steppe that covers an area roughly the size of New York City and is home to only 1,500 people, as part of a weekslong journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, but I didn't have that kind of time.
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What has been particularly worrisome in recent years is that the world's largest forests, the taiga of Russia and its boreal forest cousins that ring the Arctic and store much of the world's carbon, experienced wildfires at a rate and scale not seen in at least 10,000 years, according to paleoecological records.
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Those include widespread destruction of the Amazon, reduction of Arctic sea ice, large-scale coral reef die-offs, melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, thawing of permafrost, destabilizing of boreal forests -- which contain vast numbers of trees that grow in freezing northern climes -- and a slowdown of ocean circulation.
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They are found in an area of the North Woods geologically known as the Canadian Shield, which stretches from central Canada all the way out to Newfoundland, and which dips into the extreme north of the northern US. It is a land of glacial lakes, boreal plants and animals, and few human inhabitants.
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Portion of all birds lost: –63% Non-native species –53 Grassland –33 Boreal forest –29 Western forest –23 Arctic tundra –23 Found in multiple habitats –18 Found in several forest types –17 Eastern forest –17 Aridlands –10 Coasts Only habitat with bird population increase: Wetlands +13 Portion of all birds lost: –63% Non-native species (in any habitat) –53 Grassland –33 Boreal forest –29 Western forest –23 Arctic tundra –23 Found in multiple habitats –18 Found in several forest types –17 Eastern forest –3593 Aridlands –15 Coasts Only habitat with bird increase: Wetlands +13 By The New York Times | Source: Decline of the North American avifauna, in the journal Science; study covered continental birds and did not include Hawaiian species.
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