Australia’s Wildfires Are Releasing Vast Amounts Of Carbon

By Nathan Rott

Much of New South Wales, Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, lay under a shroud of smoke Thursday. The state remains under severe or very high fire danger warnings as more than 60 fires continue to burn within its borders.

The Australian bushfires are emitting huge amounts of climate warming carbon into the atmosphere. Normally, new vegetation that grows back would recapture it, but that may be changing.

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Updated: January 12, 2020 at 12:00 pm