🔥 ~ Arctic wildfires spew soot and smoke cloud bigger than EU (TheGuardian) ~ | Blogger: [🧎Prayer For All Impacted By Wildfires In Arctic Circle🙏] ... DID YOU KNOW, going straight on third month, a number of large natural wildfires ravages the northern polar circle. It is burning in Alaska, Greenland, Canada and northern Russia, (besides the holiday island of Gran Canaria) where a smoke cloud over Siberia is now filling an area larger than the EU and discharged 50 megatonnes of CO2 in June and 79 megatonnes in July, far exceeding the previous record for the Arctic... |

The scale of the Siberian wildfires is underlined by this animation of the huge area of the smoke cloud: more than 5 million km².
For comparison, the EU is about 4.5 million km² and the contiguous US about 8.1 million km².
(Via @anttilip of @IlmaTiede)pic.twitter.com/RDhntqaDEO

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