Out of 30 million fires across the world over two decades, the researchers identified the 2,913 most extreme fire events and found that the frequency and intensity of such wildfires has more than doubled since 2003.
"Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more frequent in a lot of the world."
The problem is rapidly getting worse, the team found: The six years with the most extreme wildfires had all occurred since 2017.
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