From Siberia to the U.S, wildfires broke emissions records this year

FILE PHOTO: A specialist of Russian Federal Agency for Forestry works to put out a forest fire outside the village of Basly in Omsk Region, Russia August 11, 2020. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Wildfires produced a record amount of carbon emissions in parts of Siberia, the United States and Turkey this year, as climate change fanned unusually intense blazes, the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said on Monday.

Wildfires emitted 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon globally in 2021, Copernicus said. That's equivalent to more than double Germany's annual CO2 emissions.