Monitor: International policy makers should set their sights on the protection of boreal forests, international forestry experts argued this week in an article published Thursday in the journal Science. The article was part of a special issue on forests released before the World Forestry Congress is held in September.
Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century, said Anatoly Shvidenko, a researcher scholar with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at Austria's International...