earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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If you've been at all paying attention to the news over the last 10-20 years you would reasonably think that the amount of wild habitat ravaged by wildfires has been drastically increasing. We've all been bombarded with news stories about the horrific fires in the Amazon rainforest, Australia, Canada, and the western US.
Yet something you likely won't see in the news is that the amount of land burned by fires has actually decreased by 26% in the last 19 years

phys.org/news/2025-08-wildfire

Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning globally—here's why

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That's roughly equivalent to the entire population of the European Union, and the number has been steadily rising—up 40% over those two decades.

phys.org

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