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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, scientists now say the greening is not nearly enough to curb global warming on the continent. The study, pu...

 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. "What does greening really mean? Can we really trust it to save us from climate change?" said Jon Wang,...

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—and found that fires are increasingly hampering forests’ ability to capture and store atmospheric ca...