Ancient fires may be helping the Amazon survive droughts – modern ones, not so much

Mongabay
Mar 27, 2023, 3:35 pm166 pts
Ancient forest fires seem to have played a role in enhancing resistance to drought in the Amazon, a recent study suggests. The research, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, focused on areas without known recent fires, but with high concentrations of pyrogenic carbon (PyC), a material found in…

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