The Prairies Climate Change Project is a joint initiative between CBC Edmonton and CBC Saskatchewan that focuses on weather and our changing climate. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga brings her expert voice to the conversation to help explain weather phenomena and climate change and how they impact everyday life.
As we work to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a part of that picture is how much carbon dioxide is absorbed by the landscape.
Carbon is taken in by plants, old growth forests, even the stretches of grasslands that dominate the prairies.
But there is another natural ecosystem that is less picturesque, but critical to the carbon
