Canada: Boreal releasing more GHGs than it absorbs: study

window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Canadian Press: A new study suggests Canada’s boreal forest may be releasing more greenhouse gases than it absorbs. The study — by Tom Gower of the University of Wisconsin — will be published tomorrow in the journal Nature. Gower studied a one million-square-kilometre stretch of forest around Thompson, Manitoba, focusing on how carbon moved between the forest and the atmosphere. He used computer modelling and forestry records to suggest how that cycle has changed since the 1950s. …

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