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Winter usually kills most forest fires. But in the boreal woods that encircle the far North, some fires, like zombies, just don’t die.
The first broad scientific look at overwintering “zombie fires” reveals these rare occurrences can flare up the year after warmer-than-normal summers and account for up to 38 percent of the total burn area in some regions, researchers report online May 19 in
Nature. As climate change accelerates in boreal forests, the frequency of zombie fires could rise and exacerbate warming by releasing more greenhouse gases from the region’s soils, which may house twice as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere (
A new report finds that while so-called "zombie fires" are currently responsible for a small portion of the land scarred by wildfires today in the world's boreal forests, they could become more prevalent as the climate warms.