Feb 21, 2023 | Climate Justice
What are the reasons behind women’s higher vulnerability and lower adaptive capacity to the climate crisis? Women are one of the groups most affected by the climate crisis, notably in developing countries. This high level of climate vulnerability is tied to the...
Feb 21, 2023 | Biodiversity
How is the Boreal Forest a carbon sink? As a refresher, an ecosystem is a carbon sink when it absorbs more “carbon” (in many different forms but usually CO2 from the atmosphere) than it releases. Boreal Forests are an excellent carbon sink as the very cold...
Feb 6, 2023 | Biodiversity
The Boreal Forest Ecosystem Located south of the world’s tundras and north of many mixed forest zones, the northern regions of Canada, the United States and Russia account for 93% of the Taiga biome [7]. Due to the harsh conditions, there is a low diversity of...
May 21, 2022 | Climate Science
The industrial revolution has brought about an increase in global temperature due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The resulting phenomenon called ‘global warming’ is defined by the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) as an...
Apr 1, 2022 | Food & Agriculture
Understanding land-use change Land-use itself is a relatively broad term referring to any form of human-assigned purpose or management practice [7]. The ‘use’ of the land is then categorized based on these purposes, such as cropland, livestock grazing or...
