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Wildfires put record amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere
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Wildfires burning around the world contributed to record levels of carbon dioxide in the air this summer, according to a European Union Earth monitoring service.

The fires emitted more than 2.5 billion tons of CO2 into the air in July and August, reports the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).

More than half of those emissions came from North America and Siberia.

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