Widespread peat carbon losses driven by the 2025 Scottish megafire
Adam F. A. Pellegrini
Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01994-3 In summer 2025, a rapidly spreading megafire in Scotland, twice as large as the next-largest UK fire in the past two decades, caused widespread carbon emissions from the combustion of vegetation and peat, according to remote sensing analyses, field measurements and modelling.