Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution into the atmosphere, according ...

Researchers found major fire models underestimate carbon released from deep peat soils in boreal forests. Field data from 324 Swedish wildfires showed belowground emissions were missed by up to 14 ...

Two years ago, enormous fires ripped through some 46 million acres of forest in Russia, the country’s worst fire season on record. The scale of tree cover loss in the massive boreal, or northern, ...

Almost half a billion tonnes of carbon were released from North American and Russian boreal forests in 2021, a record high and more than double the amount they emitted in 2020. Boreal forests are high ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...