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    Canada's wildfires in 2023 have broken carbon pollution records. The total carbon emissions from wildfires reached 290 megatons in just the first seven months of the year, more than double the previous annual record. The fires have also burned the largest area in Canada's recorded history, over 120,000 square kilometers by the end of July. Smoke from the fires has spread across North America, lowering air quality as far as New York and Chicago, and even reaching Norway. Over 1,000 wildfires were burning in Canada as of early August, with over 660 classified as out of control.

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    Canada's wildfires in 2023 have broken carbon pollution records. The total carbon emissions from wildfires reached 290 megatons in just the first seven months of the year, more than double the previous annual record. The fires have also burned the largest area in Canada's recorded history, over 120,000 square kilometers by the end of July. Smoke from the fires has spread across North America, lowering air quality as far as New York and Chicago, and even reaching Norway. Over 1,000 wildfires were burning in Canada as of early August, with over 660 classified as out of control.

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    Canada's wildfires in 2023 have broken carbon pollution records. The total carbon emissions from wildfires reached 290 megatons in just the first seven months of the year, more than double the previous annual record. The fires have also burned the largest area in Canada's recorded history, over 120,000 square kilometers by the end of July. Smoke from the fires has spread across North America, lowering air quality as far as New York and Chicago, and even reaching Norway. Over 1,000 wildfires were burning in Canada as of early August, with over 660 classified as out of control.

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    Canada’s Wild=re Smoke Smashes Annual


    Pollution Record in Just Seven Months
    Smoke from this year’s perilous wildSre season has lowered air quality in Canada, the U.S. and beyond.

    By Angely Mercado Published 6 hours ago Comments (3)

    Smoke from wild=res in the provinces of Quebec and Nova Scotia is seen on June 28, 2023, in Toronto, Canada.
    Photo: Ian Willms (Getty Images)

    Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this
    year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.

    Data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) found that
    the total carbon emissions from this year’s Canadian wildfires had soared to
    290 megatons in only seven months. This is more than double the previous
    carbon emissions record for Canada in an entire year, the agency explained in
    its statement.

    A D V E RT I S E M E N T

    This year’s wildfire season has broken other records too. In late June, the
    Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre announced that this year’s wildfire
    season had seen the largest burned area in Canada’s recorded history. “By the
    end of July, over 120,000 km2 had been burned; nearly twice as much as the
    previous record of 71,060 km2 burned during the entire of 1995,” the CAMS
    statement explained.

    Graphic: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) (Fair Use)

    A D V E RT I S E M E N T

    A D V E RT I S E M E N T

    As of August 3, there were more than a thousand wildfires burning across all of
    Canada, according to data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
    More than 660 of those fires are currently out of control. Last month, there
    were a little under 900 wildfires throughout the country. Government data
    shows that this year’s wildfire season has burned an area of about 13 million
    hectares (32,123,700 acres).

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    The number of wildfires in Canada jumped earlier this summer after


    thunderstorms in British Columbia sparked more fires, Euronews reported. The
    unseasonably warm and dry conditions this year have made it even harder for
    firefighters to extinguish the flames.

    A D V E RT I S E M E N T

    Screenshot: Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (Fair Use)


    More than 1000 recorded =res in Canada as of August 3, 2023.

    Plumes of smoke have traveled south many times, lowering air quality and
    visibility throughout multiple major U.S. cities this summer, including Chicago
    and New York City. The smoke even caused asthma-related emergency room
    visits to increase for several days this past June. Smoke has even traveled
    overseas this year and has been detected as far away as Norway this June, the
    Guardian reported.

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