Climate-warming emissions from forest fires in the European Union have soared to record levels this year, as flames have burned more than 1 million hectares of land since January \u2013 equivalent to 13 times the area of the New York.<\/p>\n
The fires raging across the continent \u2013 with the main outbreaks in Spain and Portugal \u2013 have so far released 38.37 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere, more than Sweden's annual CO2 emissions, according to a report.\u00a0<\/span>data<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).<\/span><\/p>\n This is more than double the average historical CO2 emissions recorded in the same months over the past 20 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n the worst fire season on record, with fires killing at least seven people, forcing thousands more from their homes and destroying homes and crops as the peninsula was ravaged by heatwaves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mark Parrington, lead scientist at the European Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), told Climate Home that the fires ravaging Spain and Portugal this month have caused \u201cextreme emissions.\u201d (Matteo Civillini, more at climatechangenews.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Climate-warming emissions from forest fires in the European Union have soared to record levels this year, as flames have burned more than 1 million hectares of land since January \u2013 equivalent to 13 times the area of the<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}