With summer drawing to a close in Canada, the 2024 wildfire season is shaping up as one of the most destructive on record, ...

Images of towering wildfires tearing through forests and leaving a national park in cinders have kept many tourists away, ...

Canada has surpassed the grim milestone of 5,000 wildfires to date over the 2024 season, according to data from the national wildfire agency. With over five million hectares torched by blazes this ...

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 experienced its warmest and driest conditions in decades, leading to extreme forest fires that released approximately ...

Last year’s Canadian wildfires smashed records, burning about seven times more land in Canada’s forests than the annual average over the previous four decades. Eight firefighters were killed ...

OTTAWA: Record wildfires in 2023 bumped Canada into the top four greenhouse gas-emitting countries in the world that year, according to a study on Wednesday (Aug 28) that also cast doubt on its ...

Canada is the No. 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 major carbon sink ...

The fires were fueled by unusually warm and dry conditions, affecting 18 million hectares of forest. Carbon monoxide from Canada wildfires curls thousands of miles across North America.

So many trees burned during Canada’s historic wildfire season last year that the forest emitted more carbon than most countries’ fossil fuel emissions for 2022, according to research published ...

According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the 2023 fire season was the most destructive in B.C.’s history. Two fires in the Okanagan and the Shuswap regions resulted in $720-million in insure ...