With wispy tufts that drape trees like haunted-house cobwebs, old man’s beard lichen can be an unexpected sight in northern ...

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 ...

Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline in favor of temperate maple forests, the ecological history of the boreal ...

The Sierra got its first round of heavy snow earlier this week and some ski resorts in the area are taking advantage of it. On Thursday morning, staff at Boreal Mountain Resort ...

Have you been watching the HBO/BBC production of "His Dark Materials"? The television adaptation of the Philip Pullman classic trilogy is already a smash hit in the United Kingdom. If you've read the ...

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

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, ...

The Marcell Experimental Forest in northern Minnesota. Scientists are simulating different climates in these glass chambers to better understand how boreal forests will respond to rising temperatures.

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...