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Blazes That Refuse to Die: ‘Zombie Fires’ With a changing climate, fires in far northern forests that smolder throughout winter and erupt again in spring could become more common, a new study suggests. The Bogus Creek Fire in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a state where the vast majority of carbon emissions from fires come from burning soil.Credit...Matt Snyder/Alaska Division of Forestry, via Associated Press Zombie forest fires are on the rise. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, fires in far northern forests that smolder throughout...

Posted: May 19, 2021 1:36 PM ET | Last Updated: May 19 A specialist sprays water while extinguishing a forest fire in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, Russia in August 2020. Zombie fires — fires that smoulder underground through the winter and rise from the earth in the spring — were blamed for some of the extreme fires in Russia last year.(Russia's Aerial Forest Protection Service/REUTERS)

Despite pandemic shutdowns, atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane levels surged last year, reports Climate and Capitalism.

The global surface average for carbon dioxide (CO2), calculated from measurements collected at NOAA’s remote sampling locations, was 412.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2020, rising by 2.6 ppm during the year. The global rate of rise was the fifth-highest in NOAA’s 63-year record, following 1987, 1998, 2015 and 2016. The annual mean at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii was 414.4 ppm during 2020. Economic slowdown prevented a record increase in CO2 The economic recession was estimated to have lowered carbon emissions by about 7% during 2020. Without the economic slowdown, last year’s...

But with northern Canada warming about three times as fast as the rest of the world, climate change threatens the permanence of vast stretches of this frozen ground — and the ecosystems and communities it supports.  For the people living in the subarctic Dehcho region of the Northwest Territories, the changes have been stark. “Our Elders definitely noticed a real change in how things look,” Dehcho First Nations Grand Chief Gladys Norwegian told The Narwhal in an interview. “They don’t have to be scientists to know, they just feel it and see it.”  While the impacts are felt m...