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Climate change is raising peat fire risk study

2016-07-08 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Scientists in Canada have confirmed an unexpected hazard in the world of climate change: the subterranean fire. Peat bogs massive stores of atmospheric carbon, held in partly-decomposed fibrous plant material could catch fire and smoulder below the surface as they dry out in a regime of global warming. It was dried peatlands that fuelled a blaze in Slave Lake, Alberta, in 2011, and the devastating forest fires around Fort McMurray this year also ignited peatland alongside the only highway...

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