Increasing wildfires threaten to turn Northern Hemisphere’s boreal forests from vital carbon stores into climate heaters
Boreal forests is covering 10% of the world’s land, but storing one-third of the land’s carbon. A forest in Canada burns during the country’s 2014 wildfires. Stefan Doerr, Author provided Stefan H Doerr, Swansea University; Chuanyu Gao, Chinese Academy of…