{
  "id": 4995527,
  "title": "France's summer 2026 wildfires lead to unprecedentedly huge carbon emissions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/frances-summer-2026-wildfires-lead-to-unprecedentedly-huge-carbon",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-02T02:26:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/09/02/france-s-summer-2026-wildfires-lead-to-unprecedentedly-huge-carbon-emissions_6757067_114.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The EU's Copernicus Earth observation service reported that more than 1.5 million metric tons of carbon were released, a figure not seen since 2003. This comes at a time when France must speed up cutting its greenhouse gas emissions while its forest carbon sink shrinks.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}