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CBC: Northern wildfires and climate change are fuelling each other, a new study shows.
"Increasing temperatures [are] going to result in increasing fire in both Alaska and Canada," says Merritt Turetsky, lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geoscience.
"This results then, according to our data, in more greenhouse gas emissions, which then feeds back to climate warming through the greenhouse effect."
Turetsky, an ecology professor at the University of Guelph, and her collaborators......
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Climate change, wildfires in vicious cycle
Posted by CBC: None Given on December 11th, 2010
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