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Global Warming Cited as Wildfires Increase in Fragile Boreal Forest

Scientists have been warning for decades that climate change is a threat to the immense tracts of forest that ring the Northern Hemisphere, with rising temperatures, drying trees and earlier melting of snow contributing to a growing number of wildfires.

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/science/global-warming-cited-as-wildfires-increase-in-fragile-boreal-forest.html?_r
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The arsonists of Fort McMurray have a name

Fossil fuel corporations are causing the climate change fuelling mega-fires – and they should be footing the bill for the devastation

▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2016/may/12/the-arsonists-of-fort-mcmurray-have-a-name?CMP=share_btn_tw

Canada : le feu encercle la région pétrolière de Fort McMurray, une base de vie détruite

Les feux de forêts gagnent du terrain au nord de Fort McMurray (Alberta, ouest canadien) et ont détruit les 665 logements d’une des bases de vie hébergeant, en temps ordinaire, des milliers de travailleurs du pétrole.

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/canada-le-feu-encercle-la-region-petroliere-de-fort-mcmurray-