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Iván Villaverde Canosa, PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Leeds

Canada wildfires: an area larger than the Netherlands has been burned so far this year -- here's what is causing them

British Columbia, Canada. EB Adventure Photography/Shutterstock

Over the past few weeks, wildfires have ravaged large swathes of Canada. The fires have burned millions of hectares of land, displaced tens of thousands of people and disrupted the lives of millions.

Smoke from fires in the Canadian province of Quebec blew down into the US, turning the New York skyline orange. This episode of unprecedented air pollution has drawn global attention to the fires.

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