Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, ...

The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new ...

An international team of scientists highlight the critical role of soil in climate mitigation, raising urgent questions about the long-term consequences of industrial forestry practices.

Old-growth forests store more carbon than managed forests, especially in soil. This changes how we think about climate and forest protection.

The deep, dark forests of northern Europe supplied people with wood, timber and food for millennia. They gave rise to myths, legends and fairy tales, and offered refuge to the persecuted. Over time, ...

On an early morning in northern Sweden, Nila Jannok, a local Sámi reindeer herder, was out walking through one of the country’s last remaining old-growth forests when he stumbled upon something ...

Swedish old-growth forests store 83% more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is mainly due ...

Forests are emerging as critical economic infrastructure, driving global growth, supporting livelihoods and powering the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy.

WWF, the conservation organization, today announced that one million hectares - an area one third the size of Belgium - of Swedish state-owned forests have been certified under the principles of the ...

Five years after the European Union vowed to lead the creation of the “first climate neutral continent” by 2050, and pledged at least a trillion euros to that effort, a long list of organizations, ...

An isolated wooden cottage covered with thick snow in the Arctic at dusk in winter, Tjautjas, Lapland, Sweden. (Paolo Graziosi / Robert Harding RF via AFP) HÖÖR, Sweden (AFP) — In a cottage nestled ...

Researchers at Lund University have produced the most detailed map of carbon emissions from Swedish forest fires to date. The results show that the largest emissions occur below the ground surface, in ...