smolder

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As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

"Peatlands and organic soils can smolder for weeks to years, releasing enormous amounts of ancient carbon."

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Why was an earlier Palisades fire allowed to smolder until it sparked the inferno that wiped out the town?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

And though he, too, doesn’t speak, his dark eyes smolder, telling me something I don’t quite understand.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir