Dormant 'zombie fires' scattered across the Arctic region -- remnants of record blazes last year -- may be coming to life after an unusually warm and dry spring, scientists warned Wednesday.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite photo shows smoke from wildfire in western Greenland. PARIS -- Dormant "zombie fires" scattered across the Arctic region -- remnants of record blazes last year -- may be coming to life after an unusually warm and dry spring, scientists warned Wednesday.
The year 2019 was marked by fires unprecedented in scale and duration across large swathes of Siberia and Alaska. The risk of wildfires increases with hot weather and low humidity, and Europe in particular has seen record temperatures for March and April this year. Since 2005, scientists on the ground in Alaska have identified 39 such "holdover fires", as they are also called.
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