Rising number of highly destructive fires in some parts of world

Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent Despite the powerful images of wildfires coming from Reno, and the raft of fires we have had globally this year, the amount of land burned globally has actually fallen over the past two decades. That’s mostly down to how land is farmed, with far less controlled burning across the savannahs of Africa for example. But what’s rising is the number of fast, highly destructive fires in the forests away from the Tropics – especially in the American west, southern E