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New York Times: Natural Resources Canada-Canadian Forest Service A boreal forest fire burns deep into the soil, releasing carbon dioxide. Climate change is causing Alaskan wildfires to burn more fiercely, liberating vast stores of soil-based carbon dioxide that will further accelerate warming, a new study has found. Prior studies have shown that the extent of wildfires in Alaska increased by 50 percent over the last decade. The latest study, published in Nature Geoscience, finds that the intensity of these fires......
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Climate Change Igniting Deep Peatland Fires, Study Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 6th, 2010
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