Scientists look to keep NWT’s huge carbon stores out of the air

Cutting human-driven greenhouse gas emissions is already proving tough in the North. Now, attention is turning to carbon within the land itself – an emissions problem that also needs solving and which could be hugely damaging.
Governments across Canada and the world have spent years trying to bring down the emissions we put out through our use of fossil fuels.

Yet targets are being missed and our world is still warming. As it does that, the likelihood increases that massive stores of carbon contained within our landscape will start to emerge into the air, making the overall problem worse.

Next week, scientists will gather in the Northwest Territories to talk about that.

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