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Arctic Wildfires
August 7 , 2019
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- Wildfires ravaging parts of the Arctic are threatening to accelerate the melting of ice and permafrost (the permanently frozen ground layer).
- This will release greenhouse gases stored for thousands of years.
- The magnitude of wild fires is the highest than any other in the 16-year record.
- Scientists warn that the forest fires will ignite peat fires.
- Peat stores large amounts of carbon, which on burning releases record amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.
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