Health Desk- 04 Sep 2020: This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation programme said on Thursday.
Uncontrolled forest fires across one of the planet's coldest
regions has sent a quarter of a billion tonnes of CO2 spiraling into the
atmosphere since January this year, topping by more than a third the total for
2019, according to satellite data.
Almost all of the fires are in Russia, the EU's Copernicus
Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and the European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts jointly reported.
