We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires
#Wildfires in the northern boreal #forests of #Alaska, #Canada, #Scandinavia, and #Russia may be more damaging to the #climate than previously thought, a new UC Berkeley-led study suggests. That's because these #fires don't just burn through trees; they can also penetrate deep into the #carbon-rich layers of #soil underneath many #boreal forests, releasing carbon that has been accumulating for hundreds or even thousands of years.
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-underestimating-true-carbon-northern-wildfires.html