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Canadian Press: Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own.
A paper published Monday suggests the forests in those provinces are already emitting more greenhouse gases than they absorb.
The finding could overturn assumptions that global warming would improve growing conditions for trees in the North.
"We found the boreal east and the boreal west is a totally different......
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Canada: Climate change shrinking forests in 3 prairie provinces
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 31st, 2012
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