Blue carbon: the climate change solution you’ve probably never heard of
Coastal ecosystems like salt marshes sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, but have been whittled...
What do wetlands, forests, grasslands, farmlands all have in common? They all have the potential to store tremendous amounts of carbon.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017 found these so-called nature-based climate solutions could provide more than one-third of the emissions reductions needed to stabilize global temperature increases below 2 C by 2030 under the Paris Accord.
For countries with vast landscapes, the idea of these nature-based climate solutions created quite the buzz.
Those findings also thrust Canada — home to 25 per cent of Earth’s wetlands and boreal forests, as well as endangered prairie grasslands and the world’s longest coastline — into playing a vital role in the global fight against climate change.
This series looking at the role of Canada’s natural landscapes in the fight against climate change is funded by Metcalf Foundation. As per The Narwhal’s editorial independence policy, the foundation has no editorial input.
Coastal ecosystems like salt marshes sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, but have been whittled...
Only remnants of this carbon-rich forest in the Maritimes remain after centuries of clear-cutting. More...
Conservation and agriculture have often been seen as being at odds with one another, but...
This 1.3 million hectare forest in Quebec has never been logged or known the incursion...
Grasslands sequester billions of tonnes of carbon and support hundreds of plant species and over...
Ontario’s vast peatlands serve as home to dozens of First Nations, store immense amounts of...
Scientists have found protecting nature can provide more than one-third of the emissions reductions required...
On a bitterly cold morning in early March, Gitxsan Simgiigyat (Hereditary Chiefs) stood outside the provincial Supreme Court building in Smithers, B.C., their regalia fending...
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