Tripling of boreal wildfire emissions since 2001 show ‘growing vulnerability’ of Canada’s northern forests: new U.K. study

Meanwhile, firefighters and wildfire survivors gather in Ottawa to call for stopping ‘the problem at the source’ by moving to clean energy and better forest management.

A wildfire burns through a Canadian boreal forest in 2016. A study led by a British university found carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires had increased 60 per cent since 2001.Photograph courtesy of Stefan Doerr

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BY STEPHEN JEFFERY

October 28, 2024

Organizations converged in Ottawa last week to demand greater action to protect Canadians against climate change-caused disasters, while a new study showed carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires in the world’s boreal forests—including Canada's—have almost tripled sinc...

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