The most high-risk conditions for fires are increasingly happening across countries at the same time, making resulting wildfires even more challenging to tackle, new research reveals.
The most high-risk conditions for fires are increasingly happening across countries at the same time, making resulting wildfires even more challenging to tackle, new research reveals.
Scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of California, Merced (UC Merced) found this synchronised extreme fire weather - characterised by exceptionally warm, dry, and often windy conditions - has increased strongly worldwide since 1979, becoming more widespread throughout regions, not just more frequent in single locations.
When these widespread high-risk days occur, there is also more fire activity and worse air quality in several regions, not just locally.
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