Global heating and human changes to the landscape have invited more destructive fires, making fire season worse

Leyland Ceccoin TorontoSat 10 Jun 2023 11.00 EDT

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/canada-wildfires-climate-global-heating

Weeks of unprecedented wildfiresin Canada have burned millions of hectares, displaced more than 100,000 residents and plunged the country into a nationwide crisis as exhausted crews battle hundreds of blazes. But experts caution that a changing climate and human actions on the landscape will probably make fire seasons worse in the coming years.

Hundreds of firefighters from across the world have flown toCanadato aid a nation stretched thin with a spring fire season that has shattered records on both sides of the country, with warmer and drier months still to come.

As of Friday, there were 421 fires burning, down from 441 on Wednesday, according tothe Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The number of fires deemed out of…