Sweden and Finland should be doing more to protect their primary and old-growth forests, argues the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in a new report. "Thousands of hectares of forests with high conservation ...

Yes, really – scientists have just discovered that some forests of what was thought to ... a region of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. However, upon analyzing the DNA of seaweed ...

Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of these is one of the most widely distributed species in Northern Europe, while ...

Clear-cutting in the Fiskarbo region of Dalarna County, central Sweden. LOULOU D'AKI FOR LE ... the country's fifth largest forest owner with 460,000 hectares of forest, i.e., 1.7% of the ...

This winter rally ventures deep into the frozen and remote forests of north-eastern Sweden. Studded tyres provide grip on snow and ice, and yet it is paradoxically one of the series' fastest rounds.

From the large fires in Sweden in 2014 and 2018, to the devastating fires in Siberia in 2021 and Canada in 2023, boreal forests are facing unprecedented levels of disturbance from wildfire events.