Lightning and fires on the Arctic tundra seem to be on the rise. Jane Qiu meets the researchers learning from the scorched earth in Alaska.
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Jane Qiu, a recipient of the 2009 Marine Biological Laboratory Logan Science Journalism Fellowship, writes for Nature from Beijing.
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Qiu, J. Arctic ecology: Tundra's burning. Nature 461, 34–36 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461034a
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