Wildfires may be emitting more carbon and toxic chemicals than assumed, by changing soil composition: Study ...Middle East

Wildfires may be releasing more planet-warming carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals than previously anticipated — by changing the composition of the soil systems that they burn, a new study has found. The charcoal-like remnants of charred wood and other organic compounds, collectively known as black carbon, may not be trapping carbon dioxide for as long as scientists have hope, according to the study, published on Tuesday in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. "Carbon that's gone through forest fires and becomes black carbon can actually turn more readily into carbon dioxide by microbes than previously thought," co-author Scott Fendorf, a professor at Stanford University's Doerr Schoo

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