Throughout the summer, wildfires have been raging in the Arctic circle. They’re the worst since monitoring began two decades ago. The World’s host Carol Hills speaks to Mark Parrington, wildfire expert at the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service about the record amounts of carbon emissions produced by the fires, why they’re so bad this year, and how they’re connected to climate change.
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