Climate change seems to have hit the world with its full force this past year, contributing to more intense extreme weather. Back-to-back hurricanes devastated the Caribbean islands, monsoon flooding displaced tens of millions in South Asia, and fires raged on nearly every continent for unprecedented periods of time.
When we think of forest fires we tend to imagine dry, coniferous landscapes. Rainforests, known to us as one of the world’s wettest environments, don’t often stand out as being fire prone.
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