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Australia fires spewed as much smoke into stratosphere as volcano: study – The Japan Times
The amount of smoke released into the atmosphere by the 2019-2020 bushfires is comparable to that put out by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in…
Washington – The bushfires that ravaged Australia between 2019 and 2020 were so huge that they spewed as much smoke into the stratosphere as a large volcanic eruption, with serious consequences for the environment, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
The stratosphere is the second layer of the atmosphere, right above the troposphere where we live.
“For us it was a huge surprise” to see such a significant effect, said study co-author Ilan Koren, a professor at the Weizmann…
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