boreal
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With wetlands storing climate-changing carbon dioxide, plenty of freshwater fish, and rich boreal forests, "the protected area on a northern plateau has long been an essential for local Indigenous culture and food security," said Courtois.
From Salon
Yet the team also found poplars, deciduous trees usually found in boreal forests.
From Washington Post
Some of the plants and animals that thrived there are now found in Arctic environments, while others are now only found in more temperate boreal forests.
From Scientific American
The DNA has revealed this ancient ecosystem in detail, with an open boreal forest featuring trees, shrubs and smaller plants and teeming with animals.
From Reuters
Today, the Kap København deposit is replete with petrified stumps and other remnants of an ancient boreal forest, but just one vertebrate fossil has ever been uncovered there: a hare’s tooth.
From Science Magazine
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