{"id":8190,"date":"2022-11-18T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:03:26","slug":"boreal-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/boreal-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Boreal Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Boreal Forest:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The boreal forest (or \u201ctaiga\u201d) is the<strong>\u00a0world\u2019s largest land biome.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Boreal Ecozone<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It principally spans 8 countries:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Canada, China, Finland, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Definition:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Boreal forests are defined as forests growing in high-latitude environments where freezing temperatures occur for 6 to 8 months and in which trees are capable of reaching a minimum height of 5 m and a canopy cover of 10%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is typically comprised of\u00a0<strong>coniferous tree species\u00a0<\/strong>such as pine, spruce and fir with some broadleaf species such as poplar and birch.<\/li>\n<li>The circumboreal belt of forest represents\u00a0<strong>about 30% of the global forest area<\/strong>, contains more surface freshwater than any other biome.<\/li>\n<li>The forest &#8212; named for Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind &#8212;\u00a0<strong>covers 10 percent of the world&#8217;s land surface<\/strong>\u00a0and has a decisive impact on the globe&#8217;s northern oceans and overall climate.<\/li>\n<li>The boreal forest is second only to the Amazon in terms of its vital role in ensuring the future of the planet.<\/li>\n<li>The boreal forest holds twice as much carbon as all tropical forests combined, and also helps purify a massive amount of freshwater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Threats:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>increasing forest fires,<\/li>\n<li>the melting of permafrost,<\/li>\n<li>intensifying insect infestations and<\/li>\n<li>warming temperatures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Drunken trees:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are tilted sideways\u00a0<strong>due to melting permafrost.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Eventually, the soil will completely erode away from the roots, and the trees will tumble.<\/li>\n<li>This buckling and sinking is because of the degradation of the permafrost, ground that has remained frozen for at least two years in a row.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/subarctic-boreal-forest-vital-for-the-planet-is-at-risk\/article66135622.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boreal forest (or \u201ctaiga\u201d) is the world\u2019s largest land biome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}