Australia's bushfires make massive clouds of pollution

Smoke rises from the Eden Woodchip Mill, from a fire that has been blazing for days, after bushfires came close the previous week to Eden, Australia January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

(Reuters) - Smoke from Australia's bushfires has blanketed its major cities over the past month, turned the sky over New Zealand bright orange and left sooty deposits on its glaciers and drifted across the Pacific to South America.

Reuters used readings from NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office showing hourly estimates of the amount of organic carbon released into the atmosphere to create an animation showing the spread of smoke.