Arctic wildfire emissions in June and July alone outranked annual figures since 2003, data shows.
A wildfire in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region last month. By Andrew Freedman and Andrew Freedman Editor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. Email Bio Follow Lauren Tierney Lauren Tierney Graphics reporter and cartographer Email Bio Follow August 14 The Arctic summer of 2019 was supposed to be an outlier.
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According to McCarty, she and her colleagues are unable to access Siberia this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, so there’s a greater dependence on satellite estimates now. She says she has explored areas in the transition zone between the tundra and Arctic taiga, which has coniferous forests, and has seen burned areas that never showed up on satellites.
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“It’s really taken people by surprise how quickly these changes have taken place in the Arctic,” Burgess said. Fires and ice The summer fire and melt season hasn’t just featured an unusual surge in fires and their harmful emissions. It is also bringing dramatic declines in sea ice and, in one prominent case, long-lasting ice attached to land.
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