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Huge amounts of carbon from forest fires ends up in the ocean

Huge amounts of carbon from forest fires ends up in the ocean

3 June 2020

About a third of the black carbon created when plants are partially burned ends up in oceans via rivers, a finding that helps us model carbon storage and climate change
Siberia wildfire

The pyrocene has begun: How to tackle a world of raging wildfires

28 August 2019

Thousands of hectares of Arctic forest is on fire and the effects on human health and the climate could be terrible. Why did this happen and how can we respond?

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