Study finds global increase in hot, dry days ideal for wildfires

2026-02-18 - 22:53

Dangerous days have nearly tripled in past 45 years – and increase largely driven by human-made warming The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy – ideal to spark extreme wildfires – has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows. And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate change, researchers calculated. Continue reading...