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ScienceDaily: Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study to be published in Nature Geoscience this week.
This is the first study to reveal that fires in the Alaskan interior -- an area spanning 18.5 million hectares -- have become more severe in the past 10 years, and have released much more carbon into the atmosphere than was stored by the region's forests over the same period.
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Northern wildfires threaten runaway climate change, study reveals
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 6th, 2010
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