In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

As more than 400 fires raged in forests across Canada on Wednesday, scientists say climate change worsens wildfires and vice versa. Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, a climate data scientist affiliated with ...

As wildfires become more frequent and intense across Canada, fire officials are seeing stark differences between northwestern ...

As the risk of fires increases due to climate change, the Greek government refuses to address the climate emergency or fund ...

The Canadian Press Over the past 30 years, human-caused climate change has nearly doubled the amount of forest area lost to wildfires in the western United States, a new study has found.

That statement is false. Amid the smokescreen of untrue claims, nobody seems to have bothered looking up the numbers. Canadian forest fire data are available from the Wildland Fire Information System.

The number of blazes was just above the 10-year average last year, while the area burned was 50 per cent higher, says a federal State of Canada’s Forests report ...

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In May, 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of forest. A year ...

SALEM, Ore. - Deadly West Coast wildfires are dividing President Donald Trump and the states’ Democratic leaders over how to prevent blazes from becoming more frequent and destructive, but ...

Climate change likely influenced forest fires in Labrador, says ecologist Abby Cole | CBC News | Posted: July 23, 2024 1:30 AM | Last Updated: July 23 ...

The 2015 assessment found that a total of 7,068 forest fires burned about 3.9 million hectares. The number of fires was slightly above the 10-year average, but the area burned was 50 per cent higher.