Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide
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What happened
An 1857 decree to drain swamps and plant a monoculture, detritus from the trees and global heating combined to produce the conditions for the Gironde inferno The ruinous fires that overran parts of France this summer have burned more land than ever recorded, forced more people from their homes than at any point since the second world war and caused what scientists suspect is the country’s first firestorm thunderclou…
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Timeline
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