The world's boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward

By Ronny Rotbarth, Ph.D. Candidate of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Ecology, Wageningen University
David J. Cooper, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Colorado State University
Logan Berner, Assistant Research Professor of Global Change Ecology, Northern Arizona University
Roman Dial, Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Alaska Pacific University

How will Earth’s vast boreal forests look in a warmer world? Combining satellite-based research with fieldwork shows that the planet’s largest wilderness may be changing in unexpected ways.

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