The World’s Carbon Sinks Are on Fire
The World’s Carbon Sinks Are on Fire. Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study.
“We had to check the calculations because it’s such a big number,” said Matthew Jones, the lead author of the report and a physical geographer at the University of East Anglia in England. “It’s revealed something quite staggering.”