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In Far North, Peril and Promise
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Feb 22, 2007 12:46am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, February 22, 2007 06:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Great Forests Hold Fateful Role in Climate Change
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, February 22, 2007; Page A01
PINE FALLS, Manitoba -- Here on the edge of the silent and frozen northern tier of the Earth, the fate of the world's climate is buried beneath the snow and locked in the still limbs of aspen trees.
Nearly half of the carbon that exists on land is contained in the sweeping boreal forests, which gird the Earth in the northern reaches of Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia and Russia. Scientists now fear that the steady rise in the temperature of the atmosphere and the increasing human activity in those lands are releasing that carbon, a process that could trigger a vicious cycle of even more warming.
The prospect of the land itself accelerating climate change staggers scientists, as well as woodsmen such as Bob Austman, who stopped recently in a quiet stand of birch on the edge of the boreal forest to examine a jack rabbit's tracks. |
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