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France Had Never Seen a “Fire Cloud” Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes

motherjones.com · 12dShare

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Firefighters in France are confronting a phenomenon never seen in the region before: fire clouds. It’s a sign of the intensity of the blazes burning—and how climate change is upping the odds that they appear. A wave of fires has swept over France and Spain, […]

First report: ‘Completely unprecedented’: Europe races to fight out-of-control blazes ahead of new heatwave — smh.com.au, 15d