7th October 2021
Columbia Threadneedle: Climate change: reassessing the risks of wildfires
The 2020 wildfire season in the US was among the worst on record. In California, a record-setting four million acres burned, doubling the prior record set in 20181. Amid the pandemic shutdown, North America was the only region in the world to see pollution levels rise, and that was due almost solely to the smoke created by these fires.
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