“We're seeing wildfire seasons becoming longer and more intense all around the world,” says Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. In the United States, Greece, Turkey and even Russia’s Siberia massive fires have ravaged forests and razed homes. Higher temperatures and prolonged droughts in many parts of the world are contributing to making the fires harder to extinguish.

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