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Climate extremes fuel explosive wildfires in Canada and western U.S.
Climate extremes have contributed to severe wildfires in Canada and the western U.S., with a climatologist describing the conditions as a 'perfect storm' leading to one of the region's worst fire seasons in a decade.
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