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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sandra Laville Environment correspondent

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos

View of the fires that hit Brasilia National Park in September 2024
Wildfires in the Amazon resulted in a 66% increase in land lost to fires in 2024 compared to the previous year. Photograph: Jaqueline Lisboa/PA

Carbon emissions from extreme wildfires increased by 9% last year to reach the sixth highest level on record.

Intense fast-spreading fires devastated huge swathes of South America’s rainforests, dry forests and wetlands and decimated Canada’s northern forests, pushing up the levels of damaging greenhouse gases.

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