Canada Evacuates Jasper National Park as Wildfires Burn in Alberta

www.nytimes.com

A team of researchers said last year that climate change has increased the risk of large wildfires in Canada, where the season usually runs from March to October. Earlier this year, Canadian wildfires also prompted air quality warnings in places including Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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What’s with Canada and huge fires? Last couple years I’ve been getting smoke from them.
- Yeah my breathing is about to get screwed again as soon as the wind shifts my way. Please do more, Canada. Some controlled burns to create barriers to wildfires spreading would be a good start. It seems their plan though is all of the forests, just let the motherfucker burn.
- Just one of the many new wonders of climate change
  
  Well duh but why Canada
- Basically:
  Canada has a lot of boreal forest
  The scale of fires in boreal forests have increased sharply due to higher temperatures (including indirect effects, such as by enabling bark beetles to survive the winter)