The only thing that stands between us and extinction is six inches of soil and the fact that it rains. That’s Anna Krywoszynska, she’s a Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield and what she’s saying there blows my…
Tag: Carbon Sink
Ice and fire: How burning forests can help melt ice sheets
On the western edge of the Greenland ice sheet there’s a stretch of dirty grey ice known as the dark zone 400km long and 100km wide this dark zone is melting somewhere between double and ten times the rate of…
Protecting This Forest Can Help Stop Climate Change
– Here we are in a cold, wet boreal bog in Canada, where the moss grows quickly and the trees grow slowly. When the trees die and fall, that dead wood sits in an acidic, low-oxygen environment where bacteria is…
