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Wildfires in Canada triggered air quality alerts for Boston and New York, fueled by climate change and warming weather.

New research suggests that northern forests, damaged by forest fires, won’t be able to sequester as much carbon as previously expected, making efforts to reduce carbon emissions all the more urgent.

The increasing proliferation of plant life in the Arctic may not be a massive difference-maker in the battle against global warming, new research reveals.

The Arctic is Getting Greener, but the Change is Lower than Expected Written by AZoCleantechApr 30 2021 There was a hope that as more plants start to grow in Arctic and boreal latitudes as our warming climate makes those regions more hospitable for plants, those photosynthesizing plants would work to help sequester the atmospheric carbon dioxide that helped them flourish in the first place. But new research led by scientists at UC Irvine and Boston University, out in Nature Climate Change, sug...

Scientists Have Underestimated the Impact of Fires on Earth’s Northern Forests Written by AZoCleantechApr 30 2021 New research indicates that the computer-based models currently used to simulate how Earths climate will change in the future underestimate the impact that forest fires and drying climate are having on the worlds northernmost forests, which make up the largest forest biome on the planet. Its an important understanding because these northern forests absorb a significant amount of E...

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  TORONTO -- While the Arctic is growing greener with climate change, scientists warn that it is not greening fast enough to absorb very much carbon dioxide. According to new research from scientists at Boston University and University of California Irvine (UCI), there was hope that as more plants start to grow in the Arctic with the climate warming, those plants would be able to help photosynthesize the atmospheric carbon dioxide that helped them grow in the first place. However, scientis...

 E-Mail There was a hope that as more plants start to grow in Arctic and boreal latitudes as our warming climate makes those regions more hospitable for plants, those photosynthesizing plants would work to help sequester the atmospheric carbon dioxide that helped them flourish in the first place. But new research led by scientists at UC Irvine and Boston University, out in Nature Climate Change, suggests that all the new green biomass is not as large a carbon sink as scientists had hoped. "Wh...

Northern Forest Fires Could Accelerate Climate Change The study focused on wooded peatland and forests like the landscape pictured here near the town of Wrigley in Canada’s Northwest Territories. This drone imagery was taken by then-BU PhD candidate Jonathan Wang during June 2017. Courtesy of Jonathan Wang Northern Forest Fires Could Accelerate Climate Change BU researchers used NASA satellite imaging data to analyze 30 years of Earth’s northern forests—an...