The blazes produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on the pace of global warming.

So many trees burned during Canada’s wildfires last year that the forest emitted more carbon than most countries’ fossil fuel emissions for 2022, a new study found.

Those three countries are the three leaders in carbon emissions worldwide. Canada is the number 10 emitter, producing just under 2 percent of worldwide emissions. Large boreal forests like those affected by the Canadian fires have long been considered a ...

Canada fires last year released 647 megatonnes of carbon Emissions were more than those of big emitting countries Forests' role as carbon sinks at risk Aug 28 (Reuters) - Wildfires that swept Canada's woodlands last year released more greenhouse gases than ...

Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found. That’s comparable in magnitude to the annual fossil fuel emissions of a large industrialized nation.