What are the risks associated with extreme cold, heat waves, and changes in disease vectors?

Nov 14, 2016 ... The boreal forest might have already begun the transition from a being a carbon sink to source, the paper warns. As the boreal belt warms fires ... Aug 3, 2022 ... Climate change is warming Canada's great expanse of boreal forest, bringing greater risk of fire and disease ... As the climate warms, heat stress ... Feb 13, 2020 ... The problem is we're starting to see signs of fires burning outside of their normal patterns, which poses a serious climate concern. In this paper, we describe previously modeled predictions of ecological change in boreal Alaska, Canada and Russia, and then we investigate potential evidence ... That's one part of how the tipping point works in the boreal forest: As the climate warms, wildfires intensify, releasing more carbon, further accelerating ... Canada's boreal forest (270 million hectares) stores carbon, purifies the air and water, and regulates the climate. Taiga climate is milder than tundra climate and moist enough to promote appreciable vegetation growth but too cold for good and prolific tree growth. Sharply ... Mar 4, 2024 ... ... boreal forest ecosystem, which will be used to explore the impacts of climate change and how they can be best managed for the benefit of the ... Mar 11, 2025 ... Taking Taiga's Temperature ... A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forestsnorth_eastexternal link ... Jul 1, 2022 ... Saving the boreal from clearcutting would not only protect trees and wildlife but also the planet's climate and rights of the people who ...