The wildfire season yielded vast amounts of unreported CO2 emissions.
Share on email in the planet's northern reaches, Canada accounted for nearly one-third of all the forest lost to wildfire last year, a new report finds.was an outlier, with some fires smoldering through the winter, it illustrated a trend toward more active seasons in the boreal forests that ring the Arctic., from the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch and University of Maryland, shows that wildfires burned more than six times the Canadian annual average since 2001.
This is equivalent to the emissions from driving about 714 million gasoline-powered cars for a single year. Referring to that study and others, NASA researcher Jessica McCarty told Axios that scientists are working to understand how more intense wildfires will affect boreal ecosystems. He and report coauthor Alexandra Tyukavina of the University of Maryland told Axios the most important response to the wildfires should be to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.Canada reports human-caused emissions to the U.N. for the purposes of tracking its progress as part of global carbon negotiations.
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