2021's extraordinary wildfires have released a record amount of CO2
Huge blazes from the north-east of Russia to North America have made global carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires this year the highest in nearly two decades of modern satellite records
By Adam Vaughan
A burned wood astatine Gorny Ulus, successful Sakha, Siberia DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images
Huge blazes from the north-east of Russia to North America person made planetary c dioxide emissions from wildfires this twelvemonth the highest successful astir 2 decades of modern outer records.
“By galore metrics, it has been an bonzer occurrence play successful galore parts of the bluish hemisphere,” says Daniel Swain astatine the University of California, Los Angeles.
“We’ve seen large areas of fires before,” says Mark Parrington astatine the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, “but for 2 months astatine …
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