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As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after

Mongabay28 October 2026, 14:31 UTCCanada

The reporting and photography for this story was fully supported by a 2025-2026 grant from the Sitka Foundation and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Four of the five worst years recorded for global forest fires occurred since 2021. And 2026 is no exception, with hundreds of thousands in North America, Europe and Africa forced […]

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