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How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World

Inside Climate News · By Bob Berwyn · last updated
New research implicates emissions from the 2019-2020 Australian fires in the emergence of a three-year super La Niña that fueled droughts in Africa and hurricanes in the Atlantic.

By Bob Berwyn

The aerosol fallout from wildfires that burned across more than 70,000 square miles of Australia in 2019 and 2020 was so persistent and widespread that it brightened a vast area of clouds above the subtropical Pacific Ocean. 

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