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Earth's largest forest, a billion conifers agreeing winter is a personality.
means The vast subarctic evergreen forest stretching across Russia, Canada, and Scandinavia, dominated by pines, spruces, and firs.
from Borrowed from Russian, which likely lifted it from a Turkic or Mongolian word for dense, rocky mountain forest.
Sheer scaleLargest land biome, ringing the northern hemisphere.
Other nameCalled boreal forest, after Boreas, north wind god.
Carbon vaultStores more carbon than all tropical rainforests combined.
Tough treesConical shapes shed snow before branches snap.