A new study says planet-warming emissions from Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfire season were quadruple the country's fossil emissions for all of the previous year and on par with some of the most high-emitting countries.
A new study says planet-warming emissions from Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfire season were quadruple the country's fossil emissions for all of the previous year and on par with some of the most high-emitting countries.
Lead author Brendan Byrne called the results"pretty shocking," and says it raises questions about whether Canada's boreal forest can be relied on in the future to absorb more carbon than it emits.
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