The deep, dark forests of northern Europe supplied people with wood, timber and food for millennia. They gave rise to myths, legends and fairy tales, and offered refuge to the persecuted. Over time, ...

Thanks to a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, Skogsstyrelsen, the Swedish Forest Agency, is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify trees damaged by the western larch case-bearer.

On an early morning in northern Sweden, Nila Jannok, a local Sámi reindeer herder, was out walking through one of the country’s last remaining old-growth forests when he stumbled upon something ...

In a cottage nestled deep in a Swedish forest, three couples recently spent four days whispering and without phones as part of a campaign about the dangers of noise pollution and promoting quiet ...

The dry summer of 2018 hit Swedish forests hard -- and hardest affected were the managed secondary forests. The dry summer of 2018 hit Swedish forests hard -- and hardest affected were the managed ...

Sweden is widely considered to be the world’s greenest country, but its surprisingly lax forestry laws often leave decisions about logging to timber companies, and large swaths of biologically-rich ...

Sweden’s newest travel prescription points north, suggesting that time under the region’s Northern Lights can support a sense ...