Birds in the boreal are used to living with wildfire, and even depend on it. But as fires burn bigger, hotter, and more frequently, birds are running into a new set of problems. At the time of publication, less than halfway into wildfire season, a whopping 23,000 square miles had already burned – 18 times the average amount typically burned by mid-June. Officials have since declared this to be Canada's worst fire year since modern record keeping began in 1983. Keep reading |
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Wildfires burn in British Columbia, Canada, in June 2023. |
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