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Climate change worsened last year’s wildfire season
Publicado em 14 de agosto de 2024
Global warming made hot, dry weather more likely in places such as Canada, Greece and the Amazon rainforest last year, new research says.
Wildfires burned 1.5 million square miles of land around the world from March 2023 through February 2024, spewing 8.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
And climate change helped fuel the destruction, scientists say.
Blazes in Canada, which saw its worst fire season on record, burned up nearly 58,000 square miles — 40 [...]