by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n
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The frequency of wildfires<\/strong> in central Siberia<\/strong> has doubled in the last twenty years and the phenomenon is likely to worsen in this century. That means vast areas of forest destroyed and high CO2<\/strong> emissions as a result of the dispersion of carbon stored in the burnt soil. A decisive influence on the phenomenon is, of course, the climate change in the Arctic region where, scientists explain, temperatures are expected to rise faster than in the rest of the world. This was reported in a study<\/a> by Nanjing University<\/strong>, in China, published in AGU Advances, the journal of the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n