The sad truth about the Canadian wildfires (gift link):
theatlantic.com/science/2026/0…

When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases.

Many people simply don’t grasp the sheer magnitude of the boreal forest or what it would take to manage fires across its enormous area, Jed Kaplan, a professor in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment at the University of Calgary, told me: “You can’t control these fires. You cannot put personnel, fire engines, over an area that is the size of the entire American South, or something like that. It’s just way too big of an area.”

And so the fires spread, pouring out smoke that washes over the residents of faraway cities.

#wildfires #Canada

Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn

Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.

^{Joshua Partlow (The Atlantic)}