Climate change fans deep-burning fires in Alaska

Reuters: Climate change is fanning longer- and deeper-burning fires in interior Alaska, changing the area from a carbon sink -- where planet-warming gases are stored naturally in the soil -- to a carbon emitter, scientists reported on Sunday. The shift has occurred within the last 10 years and is due in large part to a longer burning season, according to a study published in Nature Geosciences. The research was released at the start of a second week of international climate change negotiations in Cancun,......

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