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Published online 7 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021104-11
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Burning bogs belch carbon
Global-warming models should account for peat in forest fires.
Wild fires in the tropics are spewing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, a new study finds. They could influence global warming, and look set to get worse.
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