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How can Canada fight its wildfires?

Canada’s wildfires this year have devastated communities, ravaged the landscape and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Climate, and humans, are making them worse

This year wildfires in Canada have caused devastation to the country’s treasured town of Jasper. The wildfires have ravaged the landscape, destroyed communities and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

The causes are many, and fires are a natural occurrence. But humans, and the climate, are making them worse. As the number and intensity of fires increase, the methods used to both prevent and fight them may need to change.

How can Canada fight its wildfires?

Presenter: Tanya Beckett
Producer: Louise Clarke
Researcher: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty
Editor: Tara McDermott
Technical producer: Cameron Ward

Contributors:
Mike Flannagan, Professor of wildland fire at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia
Liz Goldman, World Resources Institute
John Keeley, senior research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey and an adjunct professor at the University of California in Los Angeles
Cordy Tymstra, former wildfire science coordinator for the Alberta Wildfire Management Branch

(Image: Getty/ Anadolu)

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