13: Burn, Burn, Burn Again
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Northern wildfires are changing so much that even their burn areas don't do what they used to do.
Previously, if an area burned, we figured that was good for a couple of decades' protection. That ain't necessarily so any more.
Marc-André Parisien is a Canadian Forest Service research scientist who's been studying this. He says we're seeing stuff that only just burned... burn again. "It's kind-of mindblowing."
Viking men have spent a millennium getting all the credit. What were the women doing?
We take a break from our usual northern news diet to meet Canadian author Heather Pringle, whose new book – The Northwomen: Untold Stories From the Other Half of the Viking World – uses archaeology, Icelandic...
Published 08/31/24