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The 2024 wildfires in Canada began as an extension of the record-setting 2023 wildfires.The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024.
Residents race to meet Friday deadline for evacuation amid jammed highways and packed flights
Due to wildfire emissions, Canada broke its record for annual carbon emissions in late June. [158] As of late August, the wildfires had released 327–355 megatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. [82] [159] The emissions from the fires were more than double Canada's planned emissions reductions from 2020–2030. [160]
Northwest Territories also hit by latest outbreak of drought-inspired summer blazes
Canada's worst-ever wildfire season has choked much of North America with dangerous smoke for months, coupling with deadly heat around the globe in a summer that's focusing the world's attention ...
The 2021 British Columbia wildfires burned across the Canadian province of British Columbia.The severity of the 2021 wildfire season has been attributed to the combination of extreme heat, lower than normal rainfall, and "repeated severe thunderstorms and lightning events" by the BC Wildfire Service, [2] and possibly exacerbated by human-caused climate change.
21st-century wildfires in Canada (9 C, 10 P) A. Wildfires in Alberta (10 P) B. Wildfires in British Columbia (16 P) O. Wildfires in Ontario (5 P)
The destructive power of wildfire has been a defining feature of a summer of climate extremes. It's a ghastly pattern that climate scientists around the world say has been worsened and fueled by ...