The wildfires ravaging Canada are releasing unprecedented rates of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, scientists said, more than doubling the combined emissions from all other sectors in the country.
So far this summer, wildfires burning in Canada’s forests have released roughly 1,420 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere, according to preliminary data from Natural Resources Canada, or the government body tasked with measuring such emissions.
“Now, fires have been getting more frequent, with larger areas burned, and more intensifiers," Kurz said."And if you combine all that, you get the observed increases in emissions that we are reporting. And, of course, the forecasts are for a continuation of a worsening of the situation for years to come."
Canada’s wildfires are burning in both managed and unmanaged forests, including its sprawling boreal forest, a 1.3 billion acre territory roughly the size of Argentina.
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