Forests destroyed by wildfires emit carbon long after the flames die – new study

By Natascha Kljun, Professor in Environmental Science, Lund University
Julia Kelly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University

Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.

Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trillion tonnes of carbon from the air, storing it in the trees…

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