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  • Alaskan boreal forest fires release more carbon than the trees can absorb

    Oct 19, 2015 10:45 am by Diana YatesResearch
    image of professor Feng Sheng Hu by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • image of professor Feng Sheng Hu by L. Brian Stauffer

    So many forest fires are occurring in Alaska's Yukon Flats that the area has become a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere.