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 …
For the first time, US climate scientists have quantified the extent to which greenhouse gases from the world’s top fossil fuel companies have contributed to wildfires.
According to a number of environmental groups, the true carbon cost of the forestry industry is being obscured by government accounting. Last month, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, an independent government watchdog within the auditor general’s office, upheld their long-standing argument.
A new study shows that climate change may undermine forests’ ability to store carbon and keep it out of the atmosphere. They found a wide range of estimates of potential carbon gains or losses in different regions, with some regions most at risk of losing forest carbon coinciding with locations of many forest carbon offset …
New research shows that although methane traps large amounts of heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, it also creates cooling clouds that offset 30% of the heat.
Long before the dinosaurs there existed many other types of animals including buffalo sized reptiles. Many died out in a mass extinction during the Capitanian Age roughly 260 million years ago. A new study suggests that this mass extinction was actually not one event but two, separated by nearly 3 millions years. Both were caused …
The Earth is not on track to avoid the worst effects of climate change according to a new study. “Our plans are not adequate to meet the goal of limiting the Earth’s temperature increase to no more than 1.5℃ by 2050,” said lead author Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo.
Deforestation is causing reduced rainfall across large parts of the tropics, according to new research. Although it has been long suspected, until now, scientists have not been able to identify a clear link between the loss of tree cover and a decline in rainfall.
According to a new study, dangerous climate feedback loops are increasing global warming and risk causing a permanent shift away from the Earth’s current climate.
