Photo: Wildfires May Briefly Slow Arctic Warming, Study Says

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Forest fires rage across the width of Alaska in an image taken by NASA's Terra satellite on August 14, 2005.

Wildfires may give the rapidly warming Arctic a brief reprieve. Tiny particles in smoke from the fires cool the surface for weeks or months at a time, says a study released in July 2008.

Image courtesy NASA

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