Learn more about research across McMaster that tackles some of our most pressing environmental issues.
Once viewed as benign wetland firebreaks, peat deposits can complicate and magnify the risk of severe, long-lasting fires and heavy smoke, but they are not yet part of the standard assessment tools that fire managers use.
Work by McMaster researchers has highlighted dramatic differences in the ways forests and peatlands function in a warming climate, and how those differences could in turn accelerate the pace of warming.
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