Burying Wildfire Wood: A Carbon Fix

0:00Canada's wildfires are leaving behind millions of dead trees, and those scorched trunks keep pumping stored carbon dioxide back into the air long. After the flames die down, that's messing with the country's emission goals big time. But here's a wild-fixed spark by a 3,700-year-old buried log found north of Montreal scientists say, bury the dead wood deep, underground to lock that carbon away for good. Earlier this year, the Cucupi Creek Fire torched over 17,000 hectares near Boston Bar in British Columbia. Fires like that aren't just one and done. The rotting leftovers create a second wave of emissions that could wipe out progress on climate targets. One company is stepping up with carbon bunkers, huge underground vaults for burnt trees. They turn that burial into carbon credits to fund reforestation projects, pulling more trees back into the fight against warming. Experts from the University of Maryland who dug up that ancient log are pushing the science, showing wood can stay carbon stable for millennia if.

1:01Sealed right. Still, a forest ecologist warns it's no-magic bullet for every burned-out woodland. CBCs digging into whether these bunkers can scale up without headaches, offering a fresh shot at taming wildfire fallout before it spirals. That's your update from Vancouver News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.