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Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning h…

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A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed

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