What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

The boreal forest is the largest forest in the world, wrapping right around Earth’s entire northern hemisphere like a giant green headband. It acts as the lungs of the planet, producing much of ...

Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern Hemisphere. In the late 19th century, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjaestad paint ...