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These wildfires never went out — they just moved underground | Canada’s record wildfire season keeps burning through the winter (wapo.st)
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“Climate warming and drying is leading to these very large fire years, which then facilitate this overwintering fire activity,” Jennifer Baltzer, a biology professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, told the Toronto Star.

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[-] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 14 points 8 months ago

I've seen similar underground winter fires in Siberia, smoke from peat emerging through snowy forests - and that was 1997-98 (also an El Niño winter). Adding a lot of extra carbon, bad positive feedback ...

[-] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

This is wild. Sounds like canada is going to fighting fires all summer.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Saw this in Alaska on assignment in 2015

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