4 great new numbers about the Canadian outdoors (plus a troubling one)

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Megatonnes of carbon released into the atmosphere by last year’s wildfires in Canada, according to a study published in the science journal Nature. That’s more carbon than what was released in 2022 by seven of the world’s 10 worst national emitters. Only China, India and U.S. released more.