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The fires in Australia are a real tragedy for the world, and of course, Canada is trying to help. Read about exactly what Canada did and how Australians reacted in this article. Australia was engulfed in fires, but Canada did not stand by and sent its firefighters to the other mainland to fight the fire and try to stop it from spreading.  Australia is grateful for the efforts Canada made to help the mainland. When the Canadian firefighters arrived in Australia, they were greeted with applause and cheers. It took the arriving firefighters nearly 16 hours to reach Australia, but…

After a fire, it can take a different time for a forest to recover. In the north, it takes much longer than in the south. However, the renewal of the living above-ground cover, which includes grasses, shrubs and mosses, is quite fast and can start as early as the following year after the fire. For lichens, this process is slower and takes up to 60 years on average. It takes about 30-40 years for mosses, depending on natural conditions. After the fire through species change, the regeneration of coniferous forests takes much longer than their direct regeneration. Conifers live long;…

Fires can cause changes in species biodiversity, replacing some organisms with others. Scientists estimate that about one-third of the fires on Earth results in a change in vegetation type. For example, it is well known that, under certain conditions, aspen trees emerge on burnt areas instead of coniferous forests killed by fire. Economically, this wood species is less valuable. Fires can cause changes in the zoological and microbial world. For example, the environment changed after a fire became unsuitable for animals that lived there before. That is why they move to other, more acceptable conditions. They are replaced by other…

Record-breaking heat and wildfires are creating “fire” clouds that can cause lightning. When heat and smoke from large fires rise to the sky, they can create firestorms made up of pyrocumulus rain clouds. These thunderstorm clouds form their own weather, sometimes even tornadoes, which can then cause more fires. It’s a vicious cycle. In Litton, 153 km south of Vancouver, Temperatures reached 49.5 degrees Celsius, a new Canadian national record. The heatwave preceded the wildfire, and as of Thursday, July 1, more than 8 hectares of fire had burned 90 per cent of Litton. Dakota Smith, a meteorologist at the…