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The planet's largest terrestrial biome is on the move – it's heading north at a rapid rate

The world’s largest terrestrial biome is changing fast, so much so that Earth’s appearance from space will be subtly shifting ...
Alaska Public Media

As Alaska's boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Canada Is Now Home to the World’s Largest Stretch of Protected Boreal Forests

More than half of Canada's landmass is comprised of boreal forest—a vast and tree-filled region that extends across the country. To help conserve the forest, the province of Alberta has designated ...
Mother Jones

Alaska’s Vast Boreal Forest and Its Species Face a Reckoning

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging ...
The Straits Times

Dozens of Canada's wood bison moved to Alaska for long-term survival

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Dozens of Canada's wood bison, who live in northern Alberta and are North America's largest land animals, have been moved to Alaska to establish conservation herds to ensure ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Bringing the Wood Bison Back to Alaska

One hundred wood bison will be reintroduced to the Alaskan wilderness later this month, somewhere they have not lived in the wild for over a century. Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren’t ...
Missoulian

Albertans expand protections for wood bison

Alberta gave itself a Christmas present with some interesting Montana connections when it proposed protections on land south of Wood Buffalo National Park. The provincial government wants to create a ...