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Huge wildfires in the Arctic and far North send a planetary warning

  • Written by Nancy Fresco, SNAP Coordinator, Research Faculty, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia drifts east toward Canada and the U.S. on July 30, 2019.NASA

The planet’s far North is burning. This summer, over 600 wildfires have consumed more than 2.4 million acres of forest across Alaska. Fires are also raging in northern Canada. In Siberia, choking smoke from 13 million acres – an area nearly the...

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