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have been able to confirm that our planet&#8217;s boreal forests are on the move.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">\n<div>NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center\/Chris Burns<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The boreal forest\u2014the world\u2019s largest terrestrial biome\u2014is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the changing dynamics of boreal forests,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bg.copernicus.org\/articles\/23\/1089\/2026\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Feng et al., 2026<\/a>\u00a0analyzed the biome from 1985 to 2020, leveraging the longest and highest-resolution satellite record of calibrated tree cover to date. The study, published in February in\u00a0<em>Biogeosciences\u00a0<\/em>with four co-authors from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, confirms a northward shift in boreal forest cover over the past four decades. Landsat imagery played a central role in this study: the researchers applied machine learning to process 224,026 scenes collected by Landsats 4, 5, 7, and 8 to create annual, 30-meter resolution maps of tree cover across the entire boreal biome. They downscaled and extended calibrated MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields data to 30-meter resolution, creating a 36-year time series (1984-2020) that provided unprecedented spatial detail for tracking forest changes. <\/p>\n<p>The analysis revealed that boreal forests both grew in size and moved northward. The forests expanded by 0.844 million km\u00b2 (a 12% increase) and shifted northward by 0.29\u00b0 mean latitude, with gains concentrated between 64-68\u00b0N. Their work also showcased the capacity of new growth to act as a carbon sink. Young boreal forests (up to 36 years) hold an estimated 1.1-5.9 petagrams of carbon (Pg C) with potential to sequester an additional 2.3-3.8 Pg C if allowed to mature. 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