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Blazes intensify in Russia, N. America in fierce start to wildfire season
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2024
Extreme wildfires are spreading across Russia and North America and shrouding swathes of the region in smoke, the EU's climate monitor said Tuesday as it warned of worse to come. Copernicus said unusually hot and dry conditions were causing blazes in Siberia, Canada and Alaska and a "remarkable intensification" of planet-heating gases as swathes of forest burn. A column of smoke containi