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How bushfire smoke traveled around the world: A study uncovers how some Australian fires produced a spreading stratospheric haze rivaling that of a volcanic eruption – Science Daily
Scientists managed to track puzzling January and February 2020 spikes in a measure of particle-laden haze to bushfires, and then uncovered the ‘perfect storm’ of…
It’s not just how hot the fires burn — it’s also where they burn that matters. During the recent extreme fire season in Australia, which began in 2019 and burned into 2020, millions of tons of smoke particles were released into the atmosphere. Most of those particles followed a typical pattern, settling to the ground after a day or week; yet the ones created in fires burning in one corner of the country managed to blanket the entire Southern hemisphere for months. A pair of Israeli scientists managed…
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