Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...
In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots ...
Researchers at Lund University have produced the most detailed map of carbon emissions from Swedish forest fires to date. The results show that the largest emissions occur below the ground surface, in ...
New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.
Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.