A warming planet and land use changes mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades
Areas once considered safe from major fires won't be immune, including the Arctic, which the report said was “very likely to experience a significant increase in burning.”
The report describes a worsening cycle: Climate change brings more drought and higher temperatures that make it easy for fires to start and spread, and in turn those blazes release more climate-changing carbon into the atmosphere as they burn through forests and peatland. Poor communities are often hit hardest by fires, which can degrade water quality, destroy crops and reduce land available to grow food.
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