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Xanthe Walker

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Larger, more frequent fires in boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores

Pools of old carbon in the soil of boreal forests historically safe from combustion are being released by more frequent and larger wildfires, an Ecoss team led by Xanthe Walker and Michelle Mack announced in Nature this week. As the climate of these forests in the Northwest Territories of Canada Read more…

By Ecoss, 1 year11 months ago
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Ecoss scientists estimate carbon emissions from Canada’s boreal forests

The boreal forest is home to one-third of the Earth’s forest cover and stores 40 percent of the planet’s terrestrial carbon. North America’s boreal forest alone, which spans the northern portion of the continent from Alaska all the way to Newfoundland, covers an astounding 1.5 billion acres—more than 2.3 million Read more…

By Christina Schaedel, 3 years2 years ago
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