Residents watching the McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna, Canada, in August from Kelowna. — AFP
ON Aug 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia.
The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration.
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Natural but dangerous
In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
Megafires, which dwarf typical wildfires in size, have an immediate ecological toll, killing individual plants and animals that might have survived more contained blazes. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
Residents watching the McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada in August. — AFP
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