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

Environment

Megafauna extinctions led to more grassland fires worldwide

Continents that lost the most large grazing herbivores over the past 50,000 years have seen the biggest increases in grassland and savannah fires

Satellite view of Australian wildfires

Environment

Most CO2 from Australia鈥檚 megafires has been offset by algal blooms

Fireman in forest fire

Health

Wildfire pollution linked to at least 33,000 deaths worldwide

A burned forest at Gorny Ulus, in the Sakha Republic, Russia.

Environment

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

Wildfire

Health

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

Life

Male birds鈥� feathers become duller when wildfires burn their habitats

Life

Major 2015 wildfires in central Amazon killed a quarter of vegetation

firefighter

Environment

2020 Australian bushfires hit people in disadvantaged areas hardest

Environment

Wildfires could become a big threat in the UK due to climate change