News From the Field Wildfire Drives Carbon Levels in Northern Forests
October 31, 2007
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Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the Northern Hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests--one of the largest ecosystems on earth--act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
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Source University of Wisconsin-Madison
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