This new center of endemism is emerging a large-scale water tower that wasn't known peatlands that weren't known, source lakes that weren't known are being documented for the first time in the 21st Century.
These zombie fires smoulder year round in the peat below ground, in and around the Arctic Circle, only to burst into huge blazes that rage across the boreal forests of Siberia, Alaska and Canada.
Candidate sites included tropical corals in the US and Australia, a mountainous peat bog in Poland, the Antarctic ice sheet and even the human debris accumulated under the city of Vienna.
Scientists in Ireland say ancient human remains discovered in peatland appear to be those of a young woman, they believe was sacrificed more than 2,000 years ago.
But eventually those carbon sponges, which are made of materials like wood, coconut shells, coal or peat, reach their capacity and have to get thrown out.
Smoke from peatland wildfires contains a number of hazardous components, including carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, other gases, and particles of various sizes.