Combination of wildfires and seismic lines may limit spread of non-native plants in Canada's boreal forest

A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada's boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University of Alberta study shows.
The Spokesman-Review

Climate change is making fire weather worse for world’s forests

Boreal forests lost more than two times the canopy area in 2023-24 compared with the period between 2002 and 2022, the study found. Tropical forests saw three times as much loss, and North American ...
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This 7 million acre fire changed the carbon equation

In 2014, a single wildfire tore across 7 million acres of boreal forest and released 94.3 teragrams of carbon — nearly half ...
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GOP state lawmakers from Midwest states, including Minnesota, request review of Canada wildfire management

In addition to the IJC, which includes Canadian and American commissioners and has oversight of environmental issues affecting both sides of the border, the legislators also copied the U.S.
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World’s forests are mutating at record speed and scientists are alarmed

Across the planet, forests are no longer the relatively stable backdrops they once seemed. From the Amazon to the Arctic, species are shuffling, tree mortality is spiking and fire seasons are ...