Austrilia

The royal commission into summer’s horror bushfire season will investigate the “consequences of longer, hotter, drier seasons and severe weather events” while recommending ways to improve ­resilience in the face of changing climatic conditions.

California

While wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape, the fire season in California and across the West is starting earlier and ending later each year. Climate change is considered a key driver of this trend.

Brazil

The fires have covered the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo in dark smoke, and are raising concerns that the rainforest, which is one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth, may be shifting into a newly fragmented regime from land-clearing operations and other activities intended to transform the land for agricultural use. The fires have led to a clear spike in carbon monoxide emissions as well as planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, posing a threat to human health and aggravating global warming.

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