Natural History Wanderings

The Guardian  reported

The world is losing forests to fire at an unsustainable rate, experts have warned.

Wildfires have always been part of nature’s cycle, but in recent decades their scale, frequency and intensity in carbon-rich forests have surged.

Research from the World Resources Institute (WRI) shows that fires now destroy more than twice as much tree cover as they did two decades ago.

Read more at Mapped:How the World is Losing its Forests to Wildfires