Extreme Places the Taiga the taiga, which means forest in Russian, is the world's largest biome.0:04
It consists of coniferous forests and covers a large part of Russia, Scandinavia and North America.0:14
The taiga has a sub arctic climate with large differences in temperature between seasons.0:22
Winters are long and very cold with only snowfall, and temperatures can drop as low as -54 degrees Celsius.0:30
Summers are very short, but warm and humid.0:40
Sometimes temperatures reach 30 degrees Celsius.0:43
The trees of the taiga have adapted to the low levels of sunlight and the extreme conditions.0:48
Most of them are evergreen, that is, they keep their leaves all year round.0:55
The leaves are also a very dark green color so that they can absorb more sunlight for photosynthesis.1:01
The cone shape of the evergreens helps snow slide off of them so the branches don't break from the weight of the snow.1:09
The environment of the tiger encourages healthy tree growth, and some of the trees there are thousands of years old.1:18
The taiga also hosts a wide variety of wildlife.1:27
It is home to Russia's largest populations of brown bear, wolf, moose, reindeer and red fox.1:32
It also has as many as 300 species of birds, including the golden eagle and the great grey owl.1:41
The taiga, however, is in danger because of global warming and an increase in deforestation over the past decades.1:50
Fortunately, governments are taking measures to protect this precious natural habitat.1:59
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