A 3,000-year high: Alaska’s Arctic is entering a dangerous new fire era

ScienceDaily
Jan 14, 2026, 1:41 pm11 pts
For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming temperatures dried soils and fueled the spread of shrubs, setting the stage for intense fires. Peat cores and satellite data reveal that fire activity since the 1950s has reached record…

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