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A team of researchers said last year that climate change has increased the risk of large wildfires in Canada, where the season usually runs from March to October. Earlier this year, Canadian wildfires also prompted air quality warnings in places including Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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[–] silence7 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Basically:

  • Canada has a lot of boreal forest
  • The scale of fires in boreal forests have increased sharply due to higher temperatures (including indirect effects, such as by enabling bark beetles to survive the winter)