PARIS: This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon ...
Russia's Eastern Federal District, which includes parts of the Arctic Circle, emitted more than half a billion tonnes of CO2 from June to August 2020, also the highest amount to date.
While satellite images do not reveal how these fires start, many of the blazes early in the summer are thought to have been caused by"zombie" fires that smoulder through the winter and then reignite, he said. In both polar regions, average temperatures have risen more than 2 degrees Celsius since the mid-19th century, mostly in the last 50 years. That is twice the global average.
But humanity's output of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels - 37 billion tonnes last year - has increased by nearly 50 per cent over the same period.
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