LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Ongoing wildfires in France have already released record amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, new satellite data has shown.
The fires, which have burned large parts of the southwestern Gironde region, unleashed nearly 1 million metric tonnes of carbon from June to August, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service .In the past two decades, France has averaged around 300,000 tonnes of annual carbon emissions from fires.
Emissions data from southwestern Europe offers a “reflection of the size and persistence of the fires,” said Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at CAMS. This, he added, is tied to the region’s plants and trees becoming more flammable under “long-standing drier and warmer conditions”. More than 60,000 hectares have burned so far in France this year, six times the full-year average from 2006 to 2021, according to data from European Forest Fire Information System.
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