So permafrost peatlands burn and they release lots of CO2 through combustion - but that's just the start. Christopher Schulze shows in a new GRL study that slow recovery causes continued CO2 losses in the following decade - overall similar in magnitude to the combustion! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

The study was done on a peat plateau which burned in 2019. Christopher and our group managed to get together instrumentation and all in a few months to start measurements. Video below shows the site when we first arrived only a few weeks after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=REGX...