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Resources provided mutual aid and responded to five new fires in the Fairbanks area on Monday, July 25th. Two fires are connected to downed trees on powerlines, one involved a structure fire that spread into the wildland, one was unable to be located, and the fifth report resulted in crews monitoring an area for fire activity. Aircraft drops retardant on (600) Old Ridge Trail Fire in Alaska. Photo by James Lily (DOF)

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What Alaska's record-breaking wildfires mean for the Arctic's future

Wildfires in Alaska have already burned more than three times as much territory as usual, and fire season isn't over – the environmental effects could last decades

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Noah Berger/AP/Shutterstock (13057572c) Firetruck drives along California Highway 96 as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, Calif Western Wildfires, Klamath National Forest, United States - 30 Jul 2022

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'Dry lightning' sparked the most destructive wildfires in California

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Firefighters in Louchats, France, on 17 July 2022

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European wildfires have released a record amount of carbon

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Damage is surveyed at homes gutted by fire on 25 July 2022 in Wennington, Greater London, the UK

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Record weather conditions made the UK's destructive wildfires possible

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The ozone layer was damaged by Australia’s Black Summer megafires

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Extreme air pollution from US wildfires now affects millions of people

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rogerio Florentino/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (12420427a) A photograph taken with a drone shows sectors burned by a fire in the Pantanal region, Brazil, 06 September 2021. A year after having devastated a large part of the ecosystem, forest fires once again threaten the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world that Brazil shares with Paraguay and Bolivia, where scenes of rescued animals or fleeing the fire are repeated again. Forest fires threaten Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, Brazil - 06 Sep 2021

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Fires in Brazil's wetlands killed almost 17 million animals in 2020

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An old Bison latifrons falls behind in a winter landscape during the North American Pleistocene epoch.

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Megafauna extinctions led to more grassland fires worldwide

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Satellite view of Australian wildfires

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Most CO2 from Australia’s megafires has been offset by algal blooms

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Fireman in forest fire

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Wildfire pollution linked to at least 33,000 deaths worldwide

Wildfires akin to those that visibly devastated parts of Greece, Siberia and North America this year are also invisibly taking a deadly toll on human health

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2021's extraordinary wildfires have released a record amount of CO2

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US wildfire pollution linked to more covid-19 cases and deaths

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Male birds’ feathers become duller when wildfires burn their habitats

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Major 2015 wildfires in central Amazon killed a quarter of vegetation

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