je.st
news
Global warming spurs changes in AK wildfire regime
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Global warming is making some of Alaska`s interior forests more flammable, with wildfire activity higher than at any time in the past 10,0000 years, according to new research funded by the National Science Foundation. The study documented a dramatic increase in both the frequency and severity of fires in recent decades in a 2,000-square-kilometer zone in the Yukon Flats of interior Alaska -- already one of the most flammable high-latitude regions of the world. The fires are converting the conifer-rich...
Tags: global
warming
regime
global warming
Category:Electronics and Electrical