This year’s fires have tripled the record high for carbon emissions from previous Canadian wildfire seasons and have burned the highest-ever land area in the country, researchers said.
Wildfires have raged across Canada this year from coast to coast. Last month, thousands of people in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories were, including all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife and many in Kelowna, as flames threatened homes and strained firefighting services. Wildfires also disrupted oil and gas production in Canada over the summer.
Canadian fires have emitted almost 410 megatons of carbon this year, compared with a previous record of 138 megatons in 2014, accounting for more than a quarter of the year’s global wildfire emissions to date, Copernicus said. With more than 900 fires still burning, emissions “may keep increasing although the rate of increase seems to be leveling off,” Copernicus said.— more than double the previous record of 17.5 million acres in 1995.
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