Australia's horrific fires were made worse by logging

Remember the horror that was the Australian wildfires? While they feel like ages ago, they were at their peak just in January, not that long ago at all – apparently, pandemic time is like dog years. Between September 2019 and January 2020, 5.8 million hectares (14,332,112 acres) of Australia burned, destroying thousands of buildings and killing more than 34 people. And it was devastating for wildlife, killing more than 800 million animals and affecting one billion animals in all. "Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn," writes Ellen Gray at NASA. She explains that since the 1980s, wildfire season has lengthened across a quarter of the world's vegetated surface, "and in some places like California," she adds, "fire has become nearly a year-round risk."

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