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Reuters Reuters 21 May, 2021, 10:13 pm Smoke rises from a hot spot in the Swan Lake Fire scar at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, U.S., June 16, 2020. Photo by Dan White/AlaskaHandout via REUTERS ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – In the boreal forests of the planet’s far north, where the climate is warming faster than almost anywhere else in the world, some wildfires are surviving winter snows and sparking back up again in spring. Now scientists from the Netherlands and Alaska have figured out how to calculate the scope of those “zombie fires” that smolder year-round in the peaty soil. From 2002 to 2018, an average of about 1% of the burning in Alaska and in Canada’s Northwest Territories was caused by overwintering fires that survived from one summer to the next, according to a study https://go.nature.com/2RtzSCk, published Wednesday in Nature. But in one year, zombie fires accounted for 38% of the region’s burning.

Overwintering zombie fires may become more common

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 19 (Reuters) - In the boreal forests of the planet s far north, where the climate is warming faster than almost anywhere else in the world, some wildfires are surviving winter snows and sparking back up again in spring. Now scientists from the Netherlands and Alaska have figured out how to calculate the scope of those zombie fires that smolder year-round in the peaty soil. From 2002 to 2018, an average of about 1% of the burning in Alaska and in Canada s Northwest Territories was caused by overwintering fires that survived from one summer to the next, according to a study, published Wednesday in Nature. But in one year, zombie fires accounted for 38% of the region s burning.

Overwintering zombie fires may become more common as climate changes

Overwintering zombie fires may become more common as climate changes Reuters 4 hrs ago By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 19 (Reuters) - In the boreal forests of the planet’s far north, where the climate is warming faster than almost anywhere else in the world, some wildfires are surviving winter snows and sparking back up again in spring. Now scientists from the Netherlands and Alaska have figured out how to calculate the scope of those “zombie fires” that smolder year-round in the peaty soil. From 2002 to 2018, an average of about 1% of the burning in Alaska and in Canada’s Northwest Territories was caused by overwintering fires that survived from one summer to the next, according to a study https://go.nature.com/2RtzSCk, published Wednesday in Nature. But in one year, zombie fires accounted for 38% of the region’s burning.

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