Mastodawn

The majority of carbon emissions from boreal forest fires originate beneath the ground surface, where deep organic soils and peatlands silently smolder. These underground fires release substantially more carbon than the highly visible, high-intensity flames occurring above ground.
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https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/es03022601.html

Large forest fire emissions are hidden underground

The study shows that emissions from intense above‑ground fires are overestimated in fire databases

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Solar🌄Garden

@sflorg

"majority of carbon emissions from boreal forest fires originate beneath the ground"

I was repeatedly extinguishing underground fires here, several days after the "flash" fire-storm passed thru.

That may be augmented by fires repeating over a short period - 7 yrs here.

The earlier fire kills the tree and roots which are left standing dead. Forestry etc harvests the above ground part, but the next time, the dead, dry buried roots etc burn.

#wildFire