Effects of Fossil Fuels and Global Warming...
Oil Industry
Oil industries in Banff, Alberta, and Canada are destroying thousands of acres of wildlife to mine tar sands and crude oil. A significant amount of space is required to build mines. Therefore, millions of acres of wildlife are vanishing. Mining tar sands and turning bitumen into crude oil uses up a lot of energy. It has a significant impact on global warming. Fossil fuels being distributed in the atmosphere from mining and the oil industries cause the temperature and climate of the biome to change. This is a problem because animals and plants have been adapted to the natural weather for thousands of years. The warmer weather also impacts the wildfire rates in the Boreal. Warmer and dryer air makes it easier for fire to catch and spread. Lately, the wildfire rates have gone up significantly and thousands of acres are being turned to ash.
A Slowly Dying Forest...
The intact, non-burned portion of the Boreal Forest produces enough oxygen and consumes enough CO2 to make up for the effects that global warming is having on the rest of the biome. However, because of the amount of trees in this forest biome, there is a lot of logging. If too many of the trees are chopped down, it will cause major problems, as there will then be too much CO2 and more of the forest will be burned down, and that would lead into a vicious cycle of the forest degrading itself through burning, therefore producing less oxygen, which will cause this process to repeat until the ecosystem collapses. Not only are humans degrading it, but the recent changes in the environment have lead to a massive outbreak of insects which contribute to eroding the forest.