Canada and Siberia are turning the boreal forest younger, but a new pan-Arctic map shows most of it is still mature and crucial for carbon storage

A new study reveals that despite fires and logging in parts of Canada and Siberia, the majority of the vast boreal forest ...
The Globe and Mail

As Canada’s boreal forests burn again and again, they won’t grow back the same way

Hannah Hoag is a Toronto-based journalist covering climate, energy and the environment. In 2015, Ellen Whitman bushwhacked her way through a section of boreal forest in the southern Northwest ...
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What Canada’s forests can help us achieve

On International Forest Day let’s recognize the value of Canada’s forests for climate, biodiversity and Reconciliation. Canada’s forests matter and we need to do more to protect them. Haute Aboujagane ...
The Globe and Mail

Canada lost 8.6 million hectares of forest in 2023, more than 90% due to wildfires

Canada lost a record 8.6 million hectares of forest last year – more than 90 per cent of that owing to wildfire, according to an analysis released Thursday. The satellite-derived data, produced by ...
Radio-Canada

Canada’s great expanse of boreal forest is changing due to climate change. But not all hope is lost

CBC Alberta and Saskatchewan have teamed up for a new pilot series on weather and climate change on the Prairies. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga will bring her expert voice to the conversation to ...
Yahoo Finance

Canada’s Forest Trust launches Canada’s Land Trust – a visionary program supporting private landowners and Canadian forests

OTTAWA, Dec. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada’s Forest Trust (CFT) – a social enterprise dedicated to restoring, preserving, and protecting forests in Canada – launched Canada’s Land Trust (CLT), ...
Yahoo Finance

Canada's Forest Trust Corporation partners with Forests Canada to plant 250,000 trees across the country

TORONTO, Feb. 10, 2025 /CNW/ - Canada's Forest Trust Corporation (CFTC) and Forests Canada announced a new partnership, where the two national organizations will team up to plant trees from coast to ...
Canadian Manufacturing

COP26 deforestation deal key to slowing climate change, but Canada must tackle issues of carbon accounting and industry

Deforestation can reduce cloud formation and rainfall, increasing the risk or duration of drought in places that are already experiencing the effects of climate warming. Canada, along with more than ...
Financial Post

Canada's Forest Trust is growing the Canadian Club Toronto towards a net-zero carbon footprint with the power of a Smart Forest™

OTTAWA, Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canada’s Forest Trust (CFT) and The Canadian Club Toronto announce their partnership to grow the Canadian Club Toronto events towards a net-zero carbon ...
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Will tree planting fix Canada’s forests? Not without serious changes

Tree planting is an often used tactic by the logging industry to greenwash the great harm they do to the environment. A logging truck carrying logs of wood driving down a road. Credit: Joshua Berson / ...
Financial Post

Canada's Forest Trust launches Canada's Land Trust – a visionary program supporting private landowners and Canadian forests

OTTAWA, Dec. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canada’s Forest Trust (CFT) – a social enterprise dedicated to restoring, preserving, and protecting forests in Canada – launched Canada’s Land Trust (CLT), an ...