carbon sink

The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating

If the U.S. adopted a national flexitarian diet, researchers say it would reduce the footprint of farmland across the country by roughly the size of South Dakota — freeing that land for efforts that improve carbon sequestration and biodiversity.

Nearly $90 million in federal funding for a slew of nature conservation projects intended to reverse Canada’s biodiversity loss and protect more land and waters was announced Thursday.

Logging is a carbon polluter on the scale of the high-emitting agriculture and building sectors.

The peatlands in the Ring of Fire mining region alone store about two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases.

The loss of forests across Africa has long been documented. But recent studies show that small farmers from Senegal to Ethiopia to Malawi are allowing trees to regenerate on their lands, resulting in improved crop yields, productive fruit harvests and a boost for carbon storage.

Oceans are overlooked despite their outsized role in buffering the effects of global warming. We dive into how the planet — and Canada — needs to step up to prevent climate and biodiversity collapse.

As the United Nations biodiversity conference draws near, dozens of scientists from 13 countries are calling for protection of the world’s waterlogged, carbon-rich peatlands, a quarter of which exist within Canada’s borders and are threatened by development.

“I can’t think of anything more hopeful than getting involved in rewilding and restoration projects," says teacher Sheldon Etheridge on Quadra Island's school wetland project, which will be an outdoor classroom and mitigate climate change in the community.

This year was the first tree-planting season where B.C. made it mandatory to plant ones adapted to slightly warmer climates.

British Columbia's valuable carbon sink is gone. Its forests are hemorrhaging CO2. And the wood harvested from the province is now adding fuel to our climate crisis.

Our oceans are the unsung heroes of climate sequestration and must be factored into international global warming strategies and targets at COP26 or the globe is sunk, says a Canadian scientist.

Peatlands make up three per cent of the Earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbour surprising biodiversity.

Wildfires in B.C. are now pumping more climate pollution into the atmosphere than all fossil fuel burning in the province.

The atmosphere doesn’t discern between carbon emitted from forests and carbon from fossil fuels — but Canada does, writes Jennifer Skene of the Natural Resources Defense Council.