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The climate-driven wildfires currently razing Canada’s northern forests and darkening skies across the continent may have an ...
We're talking about the boreal forest. The planet's coldest forest – a massive store for carbon accumulated over thousands of years and a thriving ecosystem for plants and animals. In Canada ...
But in 2021, their contribution soared to 23%, according to the study, as extreme drought and heatwaves in Siberia and Canada helped drive intense fires. “Boreal forests could be a time bomb of ...
Right now, wildfires are raging across over 7 million acres of boreal forest in Western Canada, a continuous blanket of ...
The massive fires in Canada's boreal forests are expected to worsen as the planet warms, but researchers say they're not unprecedented in scale and size. Boreal forests are vast seas of evergreens ...
Wildfires across Canada are devouring land at a pace unseen in any year other than the historic 2023 season. With more than 7 ...
A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions. By Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai Ian ...
Canada's boreal forest stretches from Newfoundland and Labrador to northeastern British Columbia and the Yukon, and covers 270 million hectares. It is a major carbon sink and provides important ...
But even as she was leaving her home in Ann Arbor this week, the smoke from massive wildfires in Canada's northern boreal ...
A wildfire in northeastern B.C. has caused residents to flee their homes, while Saskatchewan and Manitoba have declared a ...
The boreal is one of Earth’s largest old-growth forests, and each artwork in “Northern Lights” attempts to portray the majesty of one of its varied landscapes. Artist Harald Sohlberg, for ...