Experts explain link between wildfires and climate change

This year's wildfire season in Canada has been wild. So far, more than 2,600 fires have consumed about 5.9 million hectares of forest across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. This represents more than three times the amount of area that burned in the entirety of last year’s wildfire season — and there are still months of fires expected ahead. The impacts have been wide-ranging — from tens of thousands of people being forced to flee their hom