Smoke from Australia's fires has reached South America

Smoke from the catastrophic fires that are destroying Australia has diverted 11,000 kilometers across the Pacific Ocean and reached South America, the UN World Meteorological Organisation said. Most smoke arrived yesterday in Argentina and Central Chile, where the sky appeared gray because of pollution. In Argentina, television channel [...]
Smoke from the catastrophic fires that are destroying Australia has diverted 11,000 kilometers across the Pacific Ocean and reached South America, the UN World Meteorological Organisation said.
Most smoke arrived yesterday in Argentina and Central Chile, where the sky appeared gray because of pollution.
In Argentina, the SNM TV channel declared that smoke is visible from the southern Patagonia region to the north, toward Buenos Aires, where the sunset has taken a deeper red.
The authorities pointed out that smoke in these countries poses no health hazard, unlike in Australia, where air pollution has reached high levels.
Currently, fires have released about 400 megatons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the EU monitoring programme “said. Copernicus”












