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=As Arctic Temperatures Rise, Tundra Fires Increase= 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 the records started 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. Models built on 60 years of climate and fire data found that even moderate increases in warm-season temperatures in the region dramatically increase the chances of these fires.



=My own thoughts.= That is alot of land that the fire burned. I wish there was some way to pervent this happing. When the tempoture gets hotter because of the fire the ice burgs start to melt, and that means very little polor bears. =Souses= []