Climate Change
Wildfire Is Transforming Alaska and Amplifying Climate Change
Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more
Randi Jandt is a fire ecologist, wildlife biologist and occasional firefighter at the International Arctic Research Center and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Credit: Nick Higgins
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