Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you been watching the HBO/BBC production of "His Dark Materials"? The television adaptation of the Philip Pullman classic ...

At Boreal Mountain in Soda Springs, warm temperatures and a lack of early-season storms forced crews to rely heavily on snowmaking just to get their first runs open. "To be honest with you, the last ...

SODA SPRINGS - Boreal Mountain Resort is open for business. In its 59th season, Boreal is one of California's first ski resorts to open this year, due in large part to its snow guns, which number ...

Boreal forests are key allies in slowing climate change, with immense carbon reserves and evolving species composition. Studies show that shifts toward deciduous trees can cut wildfire-related carbon ...

Boreal forests, home to iconic spruce and countless wildlife species, are facing unprecedented threats from climate change. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall, and extreme events are altering ...

Tundra voles are among the small mammals Dr. Phil Manlick, with the U.S. Forest Service, studies to understand how warming is changing boreal and Arctic food webs. Tiny organisms are making big moves ...

Forest management must adapt in order to ensure that forests stay healthy in a time of unprecedented environmental change, say experts. Boreal forests are one of the ecosystems most affected by ...

Two years ago, enormous fires ripped through some 46 million acres of forest in Russia, the country’s worst fire season on record. The scale of tree cover loss in the massive boreal, or northern, ...

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...

Ben Rawlence’s latest book is The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth. Just under half of Canada is forest. Once upon a time it was more than that. But before the trees, before ...