During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...

The boreal forests form a single biome that spans the entire Northern Hemisphere ... system by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Increasing forest fires, in the wake of climate ...

Sea levels not only continue to rise, but are rising far more rapidly than earlier, and at the highest rates recorded so far.

Widespread droughts and wildfires ... Red shows the highest concentrations. Over the Northern Hemisphere, you can see the forests absorb carbon dioxide in the spring and summer ...

These forests play a crucial role in the Earth's climate system by acting as significant carbon sinks, absorbing large ...