Last month was the worst July for wildfires across the world in at least 18 years, scientists have said. CAMS does not have wildfire carbon emissions data prior to 2003, which is when the records had started to be kept. More than half of July’s wildfire carbon emissions came from the US, Canada, and Siberia, which have had unusually hot and dry weather. He tweeted on Thursday: “We are fighting some of the worst wildfires we’ve seen in decades. Finland’s sharp increase in the number of wildfires has been cited as an example of such destruction taking place outside of the warmer Mediterranean region.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 06, 2021 13:07 UTC