CHICAGO -- Canada is experiencing one of its worst wildfire seasons in modern history, and experts said climate change is increasing the fires’ intensity, frequency and reach.
“Fire is inevitable and climate change will make it more common and more dangerous,” said Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, a climate researcher with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and McGill University in Quebec. “And that means more people are likely to be affected by larger and larger fires, even catastrophic ones.”
Alizadeh said there’s a direct effect on people living near places prone to burning, but there are also those affected indirectly by the smoke that can travel thousands of miles.
