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The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change

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  • Alexandra Witze

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Fires are releasing record levels of carbon dioxide, partly because they are burning ancient peatlands that have been a carbon sink.

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  • Alexandra Witze, 2020. "The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change," Nature, Nature, vol. 585(7825), pages 336-337, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:585:y:2020:i:7825:d:10.1038_d41586-020-02568-y
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-02568-y
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    1. Zhicong Yin & Yijia Zhang & Shengping He & Huijun Wang, 2024. "Warm Arctic-Cold Eurasia pattern helps predict spring wildfire burned area in West Siberia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
    2. Zhongwei Liu & Jonathan M. Eden & Bastien Dieppois & Matthew Blackett, 2022. "A global view of observed changes in fire weather extremes: uncertainties and attribution to climate change," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 1-20, July.
    3. Zhichao Xu & Wei Shan & Ying Guo & Chengcheng Zhang & Lisha Qiu, 2022. "Swamp Wetlands in Degraded Permafrost Areas Release Large Amounts of Methane and May Promote Wildfires through Friction Electrification," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-28, July.
    4. Ilya Stepanov & Igor Makarov & Ekaterina Makarova & Elizaveta Smolovik, 2023. "Climate change and challenges to sustainable development in the Russian Arctic," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(4), pages 1-18, April.
    5. Augusto Zanin Bertoletti & Theresa Phan & Josue Campos do Prado, 2022. "Wildfire Smoke, Air Quality, and Renewable Energy—Examining the Impacts of the 2020 Wildfire Season in Washington State," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-17, July.
    6. Vera Kuklina & Oleg Sizov & Elena Rasputina & Irina Bilichenko & Natalia Krasnoshtanova & Viktor Bogdanov & Andrey N. Petrov, 2022. "Fires on Ice: Emerging Permafrost Peatlands Fire Regimes in Russia’s Subarctic Taiga," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-18, February.

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