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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Gloria Dickie

Carbon emissions from French wildfires hit record

A wildfire burns near Hostens, as wildfires continue to spread in the Gironde region of southwestern France, in this handout photograph released on August 12, 2022. Courtesy SDIS 33/Handout via REUTERS

Ongoing wildfires in France have already released record amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, new satellite data has shown

The fires, which have burned large parts of the southwestern Gironde region, unleashed nearly 1 million metric tonnes of carbon from June to August, according to the European Union's Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS).

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