Carbon emissions from wildfires broke records around the world this summer--all told, about 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon were released into the atmosphere.
Carbon emissions from wildfires broke records around the world this summer, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
Scientists expect wildfires to worsen as the climate continues to warm. The carbon they pour back into the atmosphere could, in turn, further accelerate the rate of global warming. The republic of Sakha in northeastern Siberia saw its highest summertime emissions since 2003. Parts of western Siberia, including Omsk and Tyumen, also saw well above-average emissions.
During the fall, the Dixie Fire—which burned nearly a million acres before it was finally contained at the end of October—became the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest to originate as a single blaze. The August Complex Fire, which burned more than a million acres last year, originated as several dozen individual wildfires that eventually converged on one another.
These pollution plumes don’t always stay in one place. They can cause health hazards thousands of miles away. The blazes in western North America this year produced plumes of smoke that drifted all the way to the East Coast, crossed the ocean and eventually hit parts of Europe.
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