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Canada’s northern wildfires projected to slow global warming — at a high cost

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The rising impact of blazes in Canada and Siberia ’s boreal regions over the next 35 years will slow warming by 12 per cent globally and 38 per cent in the Arctic .

Boreal forest fires affect the climate as smoke particles scatter sunlight back into the atmosphere.

These particles, or aerosols, also attract water droplets in clouds making them more reflective.