Canada's Record Wildfires Fuel Emissions

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Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions

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Canada ’s wildest season ever’ produced about 2bn tonnes of CO2, a quarter of the total global emissions from wildfires last year .

Carbon dioxide from wildfires is a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, reaching about 8.6bn tonnes last year , considerably more than the 4.8bn annual emissions of the US from all sources.

The State of Wildfires report 2023-24 was published in the journal Earth System Science Data .

It was led by the University of East Anglia , the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology , and the Met Office .

Scientists used global satellite observations, computer models and research from regional experts.

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