Martha Muir and Steven Bernard write in The Financial Times about wildfires in the northern hemisphere.
- The U.S., Canada, and Russia are experiencing intense wildfires in boreal forests as higher global temperatures prolong droughts and exacerbate dry conditions.
- To be sure, inefficient permitting (especially in the U.S.) is making wildfires more damaging by restricting active forest management projects like mechanical thinning and prescribed burns.
- Canada is on track to have its second worst wildfire season in terms of total emissions.
“Western Canada is enduring an “extreme fire year”, said the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (Cams), with estimated emissions at levels comparable with the previous highest years of the past two decades, only surpassed by the record set in 2023.”
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