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'Zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow

15 May 2020

Unprecedented Arctic fires from last summer appear to have smouldered in the underground peat of the tundra through winter and reignited this month as snow melted

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'Zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow

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