Climate Crisis: Wildfires Ravage the Arctic Circle.

Wildfires and human activities are reducing the ability of northern ecosystems to sequester carbon, turning them into carbon sources and accelerating climate change. Boreal forests, which are the largest land biomes on the planet, release greenhouse gases from both vegetation and carbon-rich soils when they burn, spewing between 10 and 20 times more carbon than fires in other ecosystems. The Arctic is warming four and a half times faster than the rest of the world, triggering the release of still more carbon, creating a dangerous feedback loop.