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A Walk in the Woods: Fighting climate change together

Now that it is finally starting to warm up, people’s attention tends to be more directed toward the outdoors. Proper thing after the winter we just experienced. Despite the craziness in the world right now, we can focus on the environment around us.

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Throughout the Maritimes in recent years, we have seen examples of climate change by way of wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, and drought. Scientific climate models predict warmer and wetter weather in the future along with more extreme and unpredictable weather events, such as last summer’s historic drought. These additional stresses will pose additional challenges for trees living in towns and cities.

The urban forest is one of those things that most people take for granted, until they are changed or gone. Urban forests are incredibly important for current and future quality of life.

So, the question is, what can we do to help mitigate, or lessen the impacts of climate change?

The major cause of climate warming is due to the release and accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere, which causes a greenhouse affect – something I remember learning about way back in junior high school, which reminds........

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