U.N. report: A warming planet and changes to land use patterns mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems that governments are ill-prepared to confront.
Firefighters work at the scene of forest fire near Kyuyorelyakh village west of Yakutsk, in Russia on Aug. 5, 2021.
The western U.S., northern Siberia, central India, and eastern Australia already are seeing more blazes, and the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase more than 50% by the turn of the century, according to the report from the U.N. Environment Program. Tropical forests in Indonesia and the southern Amazon of South America also are likely to see increased wildfires, the report concluded.
But U.N. researchers said many nations continue to spend too much time and money fighting fires and not enough trying to prevent them. Land use changes can make the fires worse, such as logging that leaves behind debris that can easily burn and forests that are intentionally ignited to clear land for farming, the report said.
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