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High-intensity wildfires are ravaging the Arctic Circle for the third time in the past five years, Copernicus, the EU’s climate change monitor, said in a statement. As climate change raises Arctic temperatures, wildfires have shifted north where they burn through boreal forest and tundra, releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases from carbon-rich organic soils. "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay there," Professor Gail Whiteman from the University of Exeter warned. Here’s more from BBC News: https://flip.it/EGTE38
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