| Asahi Shimbun: The vast taiga, or boreal coniferous forest, stretches across much of Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Alaska and Canada. In Siberia alone, it covers 600 million hectares. Remote it may be, but like most environmental issues, the problems of the world's largest terrestrial biome have the potential to become the problems of the world. For the taiga has become increasingly prone to forest fires, a result of which is huge amounts of carbon dioxide being released into the ... |
