Image courtesy of Carl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute
Joel Kontinen
It seems that Darwinian evolution and climate change are the top priority for today.
Cutting
down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the
depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Coniferous trees prone to wildfires could be felled and carried to
the ocean by six major Arctic rivers including the Yukon and Mackenzie, where
they would sink in about a year, according to a team of researchers.
“There is
now a forest that is sequestering lots of carbon, but now the next thing is how
to store it in a way that won’t get burned,” says Ulf Büntgen at the University of Cambridge.
Source:
Alec Luhn 2026 Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2 | New Scientist 9 January
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