Secretary-General António Guterres announced the launch of the UN80 Initiative on 12 March 2025 to rapidly identify efficiencies and improvements, review the implementation of all mandates given to ...

The poles are warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, and fires in the northern boreal forest are increasing in both ...

Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations ...

To answer this important question, an international consortium of scientists, coordinated by INRAE and Bordeaux Sciences Agro, studied the growth of 223 tree species planted in 160 experimental ...

Urbanization reshapes soil microbes in surprising ways—bacteria adapt and become alike, while fungi resist change.

By analyzing microbial communities in boreal, temperate, and tropical biomes, the research reveals that urbanization homogenizes bacterial communities while fungal communities remain more specialized.

As high-latitude forests in the boreal biome migrate northwards into regions that were previously tundra, the dark forest canopies of evergreen conifers tower above the snow-covered, barren ...

The study offers a comprehensive overview of forests and the forest sector within the boreal biome and delves into the importance of boreal forests in environmental, social, and economic contexts. The ...