https://www.scmp.com/rss/502069/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Devastating wildfires across the world have made front-page news in recent times, from the current blazes in the Amazon, to last year’s deadly fires in Greece, to the widespread property destruction in Canada three years ago. One place you might not expect to be burning, however, is the Arctic. Yet at the time of writing, millions of hectares of land in the Arctic were ablaze. Fire is a natural part of the ecology of the vast boreal forests that girdle Earth in northern latitudes. But the amount... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3025880/dark-days-ahead-huge-arctic-wildfires-spew-soot?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3025880/dark-days-ahead-huge-arctic-wildfires-spew-soot?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Sep 2019 12:00:07 +0000