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Canadian wildfires have ushered in a new fire era, the ‘Pyrocene’

Humanity has changed its relationship to fire. We may never be the same.
Europe's catastrophic age of fire

Europe has descended into the age of fire

Climate change has primed the landscape to burn. But human migration has made Europe’s wildfires increasingly catastrophic.
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As wildfires rage, the 'Pyrocene' Age is upon us

As wildfires rage, the 'Pyrocene' Age is upon us

Fire scholar Stephen J. Pyne proposes a pyrocentric view of the last 10,000 years — and warns that California’s wildfires herald a very combustible future. 
California's wildfire and COVID-19 disasters
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California's wildfire and COVID-19 disasters just collided

You'd be hard-pressed to dream up a nastier confluence of crises besieging California right now.

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