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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports researchers weigh firefighting to protect permafrost carbon

19 Oct 2026 5:22 a.m. · Source: MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review reports researchers are exploring whether fighting remote boreal wildfires could slow permafrost thaw and carbon emissions, including a Yukon Flats pilot and new satellite detection efforts.

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