What happens when a rainforest burns?

Grist
By Subhankar BanerjeeAug 2, 2015, 8:08 am147 pts
The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in flames and the smoke was so thick, so blanketing, that you could see it miles away. Deep in Washington’s Olympic National Park, the aptly named Paradise Fire, undaunted by the dampness of it all, was eating the forest alive and destroying…

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