When some fires are so big they can create their own weather, new strategies are needed.
Walls of flames sweeping through forest at 200 kilometres an hour. Infernos so powerful they spawn dry lightning and burning tornadoes. Zombie fires that smoulder underground, surviving multiple winters.
In the era of climate change, wildfires like the ones raging in northern Ontario this week aren’t what they used to be. Often, they’re bigger and more intense — creating new challenges for firefighters working to douse them.
Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
Wildfire Smoke Chokes Eastern and Midwestern Cities As Air Quality Soars to Dangerously High Levels - Inside Climate News
‘It’s only going to get worse’: wildfires forcing firefighters to make impossible choices
Climate extremes fuel explosive wildfires in Canada and the U.S., experts say
Why are wildfires becoming more frequent across North America? Causes explained
Out-of-Control Canadian Wildfires Prompt Calls for 'Nuremberg Trials for Big Oil' | Common Dreams
Terrifying video shows men stuck inside train as wildfire closes in
How climate change is making wildfires more frequent
AQI 600 in Detroit, floods in Texas, wildfires in California & Canada: What's fuelling America's weather chaos
‘This is scary’: Canada wildfire traps freight train between massive flames in Ontario | Watch
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling…
Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate…
Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.
Heat waves fueled by climate change fueled more than 100 wildfires across Ontario and northern Minnesota.
As the climate crisis fuels more intense blazes, pushing them to new parts of the world, those tackling them are forced to ration…
One climatologist said "a perfect storm" of climate extremes primed the western U.S. for one of its worst fire seasons in a…
