Report on forest fires from WRI

 

WRI is the World Resources Institute, which does really good work tracking man's impact on the environment and climate change, and describing solutions that might work to address the increasing direness of both situations.

And they also publish articles that lay out the facts clearly, such as this one.

The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse

Mounting Temperatures Are Fueling More Severe Fires in Boreal Forests

"The large majority — roughly 70% — of all fire-related tree cover loss over the past two decades occurred in boreal regions. Though fire is a natural part of how boreal forests function ecologically, fire-related tree cover loss in these areas increased by a rate of about 110,000 hectares (3%) per year over the last 20 years — about half the total global increase between 2001 and 2022.

Increasing fire activity in boreal forests is likely due to the fact that northern high-latitude regions are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet. This contributes to longer fire seasons, greater fire frequency and severity, and larger burned areas in these regions."

Image from "Fires Burn Across Quebec", NASA Earth Observatory.