Canada’s 2023 wildfires have emitted around 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2, triple the annual emissions from burning fossil fuels in the country and surpassing the emissions of 100 nations combined. This year’s wildfires contribute to a multi-decade surge of CO2 emissions from Canada’s “managed” forests. After 2001, Canada’s forests emitted more CO2 than they absorbed, …
Major agriculture producers, including Brazil, are pushing back against new European Union (EU) regulations that require proof of crops being grown on non-deforested land, citing increased food production costs.
New research has uncovered evidence that most of Greenland melted only about 400,000 years ago, suggesting the country may be more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.
Massive eruptions roughly 719 million years ago in what is now Canada may have sucked enough CO2 from the atmosphere to freeze Earth over 2 million years later.
Minimal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, a new study suggests.
Across the planet, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy landscapes are thawing. Scientists have now recorded “regime shifts” like these in more than 20 different types of ecosystems where tipping points have been passed.
Subsoils are the greatest storehouses for carbon, as well as one of the most important sources of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Global warming is speeding up the decomposition of soil humus. It is also having an effect on the waxy compounds which help plants store carbon in their leaves according to a new study.
The vast northern forests of Canada and Alaska are moving northwards as a result of climate change. Also, the shift is faster at the southern boreal boundaries than the northern ones. The discrepancy indicates that boreal forests are contracting on a continental scale, according to a new study. The team used 20 years of satellite …
It’s not even summer yet, but 2023 is set to be the worst wildfire year in recent memory. As of June 5, wildfires in Canada have destroyed 3.3 million hectares of land, including 2.2 million hectares of managed forest land, according to Werner Kurz, a senior scientist with the Canadian Forest Service.
Planting trees is often a go-to action for benefiting the planet, but it turns out that it really matters what types of trees you plant – and where. Tree diversity, or the amount and distribution of tree species in a forested area, is very important for things like growth, biodiversity and building resilience to the …
