Fire is an important and under-appreciated part of global climate change
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 14:35
in Earth & Climate
Fire must be accounted for as an integral part of climate change, according to 22 authors of an article published in the April 24 issue of the journal Science. The authors determined that intentional deforestation fires alone contribute up to one-fifth of the human-caused increase in emissions of carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas that increases global temperature.