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Australian Fires Damaged Ozone Layer – New Scientist

The Black Summer bushfires, which raged along Australia’s east coast from November 2019 to January 2020, caused unprecedented destruction


Satellite image of Australian fires
Fires burn in New South Wales in September 2019 as imaged by a Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite. Photo: Observing the Earth/European Space Agency

 

Australia’s record-breaking bushfires of 2019 and 2020 blasted smoke so high that even the ozone layer in the stratosphere was damaged, a new analysis shows.

The Black Summer bushfires, which raged along Australia’s east coast from November 2019 to January 2020, caused unprecedented destruction.

Read the full report: New Scientist

 

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