NASA study finds Canada's extreme fires emit most carbon in record


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  • Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Extreme fires in Canada in 2023 emitted more carbon than many industrialized nations, and the emissions were bigger than anything in the record for Canada, according to new NASA study published on Wednesday.

Stoked by Canada's warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found.

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