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 …
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.
