Thursday, November 18, 2010

2007 Fire Way Up North worst in 5000 years!

(We are born childfree, glad I managed to keep it that way!  Here's another example of why no one should have children!)

In September, 2007, the Anaktuvuk River Fire burned more than 1,000 square kilometers of tundra on Alaska's North Slope, doubling the area burned in that region since record keeping began in 1950. A new analysis of sediment cores from the burned area revealed that this was the most destructive tundra fire at that site for at least 5,000 years.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101117141516.htm

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