With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase ...

As Albertans forced out by wildfires are being allowed to return home, other evacuees are learning their homes have been lost ...

This aerial handout photo released by Alberta Wildfire shows wildfires burning near Bluesky, Alberta, Canada, on May 28, 2025 ...

The result: 277 billion trees across the boreal zone, including 30 billion in Alberta ... support forest management and climate policy. While the federal government has pledged to plant two ...

with over 30 unique plant communities identified there. Among them are 11 species of orchids, including the striped coralroot and the sparrow’s-egg lady’s-slipper. A gift benefiting us all In Alberta, ...

Canada’s boreal forests are burning ... an overgrown forest helped fuel immense blazes that burned down much of Fort McMurray, in Alberta, and 88,000 people had to flee. Last year, the small ...

Driving north to Alaska, my own first glimpse of the boreal forest was of blackened spruce skeletons from a highway that wound through the oil fields of Alberta. At a small roadside lake ...

Especially north of Fort McMurray, where the boreal forest has been razed ... The Syncrude oil sands plant is seen north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The oil sands give Alberta the third largest ...

Walls of dark-green spruce, the conifer that populates Canada's boreal forest ... A load of burned wood at the Resolu Forest Products plant in Senneterre (Quebec, Canada), August 23, 2023.

In 2015, Ellen Whitman bushwhacked her way through a section of boreal forest in the southern Northwest Territories, near Fort Smith, and stepped into an open landscape, dotted with leafy trees.

I have been working for and with First Nations communities in the boreal forests in Alberta since 2006. In my recently published paper, I reveal how the misappropriation of these plants from ...

The four projects announced today are part of the 2 Billion Trees program and will specifically help to restore boreal ... in Alberta will plant more than 3.4 million trees in disturbed areas in ...