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Historic fires trapped in Antarctic ice yield key information for climate models

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Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey tracked fire activity over the past 150 years by measuring carbon monoxide trapped in Antarctic ice.

Carbon monoxide is released, along with smoke and particulates, by wildfires, cooking and communal fires.

The new data could help improve climate models, which rely on information about past atmospheric gases.

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English

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