PARIS: Climate change has sharply increased the risk of fast-spreading wildfires, according to a Californian study that offers lessons for prevention after recent disasters in Canada, Greece and Hawaii.
In the study published in the journal "Nature" on Wednesday, scientists at the Breakthrough Institute, a nonprofit research center, found that human-caused warming increased the frequency of "extreme" wildfires by 25 percent on average compared to the pre-industrial era.
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