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Fake News You Missed<p>Fake News You Missed on 12 June 2025:</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/FakeNewsYouMissed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FakeNewsYouMissed</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FakeNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FakeNews</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Parody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parody</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satire</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ForestFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestFires</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BorealForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForests</span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>Nature.com: Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2&nbsp;uptake…</p><p>The Arctic–Boreal Zone is rapidly warming, impacting its large soil carbon stocks... <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arctic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CO2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CO2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/borealforests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borealforests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a></p><p><a href="https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/nature-com-wildfires-offset-the-increasing-but-spatially-heterogeneous-arctic-boreal-co2-uptake-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">formuchdeliberation.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">com/2025/01/23/nature-com-wildfires-offset-the-increasing-but-spatially-heterogeneous-arctic-boreal-co2-uptake-2/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>What happens to the world if <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> stop absorbing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a>? Ask <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalSinks</span></a> of forests and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peat</span></a> were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonNeutral</span></a> by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGases</span></a> than it stores</p><p>"The number of dying trees also increased in recent years as forests are stressed by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> and high temperatures. In south-east Finland, the number of dying trees has risen rapidly, increasing 788% in just six years between 2017 and 2023, and the amount of standing deadwood – decaying trees – is up by about 900%."</p><p>by Patrick Greenfield, Inari, Finland</p><p>"Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inari</span></a>, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered.</p><p>"'I have spoken with many old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> who have never experienced the heat that we’ve had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,' says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FinnishSami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinnishSami</span></a> parliament.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorealForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForests</span></a> here in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sami</span></a> homeland take so long to grow that even small, stunted trees are often hundreds of years old. It is part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Taiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taiga</span></a> – meaning “land of the little sticks” in Russian – that stretches around the far northern hemisphere through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Siberia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Siberia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>. </p><p>"It is these forests that helped underpin the credibility of the most ambitious carbon-neutrality target in the developed world: Finland’s commitment to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonNeutral</span></a> by 2035.</p><p>"The law, which came into force two years ago, means the country is aiming to reach the target 15 years earlier than many of its EU counterparts.</p><p>"In a country of 5.6 million people with nearly 70% covered by forests and peatlands, many assumed the plan would not be a problem.</p><p>"For decades, the country’s forests and peatlands had reliably removed more carbon from the atmosphere than they released. But from about 2010, the amount the land absorbed started to decline, slowly at first, then rapidly. By 2018, Finland’s land sink – the phrase scientists use to describe something that absorbs more carbon than it releases – had vanished."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSinks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DyingTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DyingTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Tundra Vegetation To Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, Nasa Study Finds<br>--<br><a href="https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/tundra-vegetation-to-grow-taller-greener-through-2100-nasa-study-finds/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/</span><span class="invisible">tundra-vegetation-to-grow-taller-greener-through-2100-nasa-study-finds/</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01454-z" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-014</span><span class="invisible">54-z</span></a> &lt;-- shared paper<br>--<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modeling</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Yukon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yukon</span></a> Alaska <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/boreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boreal</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/borealforests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borealforests</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/vegetation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vegetation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tundra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tundra</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/permafrost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permafrost</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/remotesensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>remotesensing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/satellite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satellite</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ICESat2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICESat2</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landsat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landsat</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatialanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatiotemporal</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/forecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forecast</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/biome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biome</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/canopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canopy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/transitional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transitional</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/canopycover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canopycover</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ABoVE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABoVE</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrobasins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hydrobasins</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hydrology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/taiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taiga</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/canopyheight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canopyheight</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cimp6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cimp6</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSP</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bioclimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bioclimate</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@nasa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nasa</span></a></span></p>
Daniele de Rigo<p>6/</p><p>A comment [4] by co-authors of [3]:</p><p>"forest fires in <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> and other northern <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/BorealForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForests</span></a> are a common and natural occurrence"</p><p>However, "higher temperatures caused by climate change dry out the landscape and make forests more susceptible to fire, driving longer <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FireSeasons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FireSeasons</span></a> and larger forest fires. As larger forested areas burn, more <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a> is emitted into the atmosphere, further exacerbating climate change and contributing to even more fires as part of a fires-climate feedback loop"</p>
Auscandoc<p>The growing frequency and intensity of <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> are linked to <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. Since the 1950s, forest fires have steadily burned more area in Canada’s northwestern <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/BorealForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForests</span></a> each year.”</p>
IT News<p>The far north is burning—and turning up the heat on the planet - Enlarge / Fire-damaged trees in a boreal forest near the Saskatchewan R... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1938004" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=1938004</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/borealforests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borealforests</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/carbonsink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbonsink</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arctic</span></a></p>