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Europe and the United States have seen a series of devastating fires, with the biggest ever recorded in California and the most lethal in Greece. How can we tackle the issue of forests burning like never before? Ray Rasker from Headwater Economics in Montana has been researching financial and legal responses to US wildfires. Yiannis Baboulias, a journalist in Greece, says the government in his country has created an incentive for people to start fires, by failing to adequately register land titles. Christina Tague, Professor of Hydrology at the University of California Santa Barbara, has been using computer simulation models to try and predict how wildfires will behave and to establish what measures are most effective at tackling the problem.

(Picture: A firefighter working on the Medocino Complex fire in California. Credit: Getty)