California wildfires threaten the world's largest tree

Firefighters in California are trying to save the world's largest trees, threatened by wildfires that have raged for weeks in Sequoia National Park. Writes about it with the BBC.

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This park is famous for its giant sequoias, including the eighty-meter giant "General Sherman" - the largest tree on Earth by volume of wood.

Its age is estimated at 2300-2700 years.

Firefighters use fire retardant aluminum sheeting to protect the General Sherman's trunk and other trees.

Forest fires threaten XNUMX giant sequoias. The fire element is caused by prolonged drought and hot weather in California.

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The thick bark of giant sequoias is fire resistant, so these trees are not afraid of ground fires, experts say. But the current fires are not one of them, since they can destroy trees.

The age of giant sequoias can exceed 3 thousand years, and their height reaches 100 meters.

California Fires

More than 7400 wildfires have broken out in California this year due to warmer temperatures and extreme drought, devastating over 2,2 million acres (890 hectares), writes The Guardian.

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The KNP Complex is one of 12 active major fires. Rescuers have made progress against two of the Dixie Fire's most destructive blazes, up to 75% contained after it burned about 960 acres in the northern Sierra and southern Cascades regions. Near Lake Tahoe, containment of the more than 500-acre Caldor Fire has increased to 390%.

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The Dixie fire is the largest wildfire of the 2021 fire season and the second largest in the state's recorded history. The storm burned at least 388 hectares of land, mostly forested, and destroyed more than 000 buildings in its path. The fire, named after the road on which it swept, began on July 1200 in the Feather River Canyon, writes Sci tech daily.

As thousands of rescuers continue to fight the fire element, some have been distracted to help curb the nearby Caldor fire that threatened communities near Lake Tahoe before it crossed the state border into Nevada.

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According to the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS), smoke from fires in North America has spread across the continent and across the Atlantic towards Europe, but is unlikely to affect Europeans as it is high in the atmosphere. However, the smoke affected air quality in the United States and Canada, where it was much closer to the surface.

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