Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If that wasn’t terrifying enough, peat fires can release 100 times the carbon ...

The largest fires on Earth aren’t the monsters that have been burning across California and Australia, but the zombies smoldering in the soils of the Arctic and tropics. Undead fires live on in peat: ...

Raging fires are generally bad news, but smoldering peat fires can do more environmental damage and present unique challenges for those trying to extinguish them. Researchers in the UK have come up ...

A Reddit user in Britain found an area of the forest floor that was mysteriously smoking, with no fire in sight. User u/TomakaTom shared a video of the strange sight, which showed the ground charred ...

The researchers say this is a big step in tackling smouldering peat fires, which are the largest fires on Earth. They ignite very easily, are notoriously difficult to put out, and release up to 100 ...

"It's a very stubborn fire," said Steve Hill, the public information officer for the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. "It's a peat fire, which means that it's burning in a combination of ...

The blanket of wildfire smoke that spread across large parts of the U.S. and Canada in 2023 was a wake-up call, showing what climate change could feel like in the near future for millions of people. A ...

Multiple sensors on ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions of tons of harmful ...

They also got drone footage that showed the spread of a peat fire in Indonesia in 2015. Sure enough, their model jibed with the real-world observations of how peat fires spread, and how at times ...