Past fires suggest effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years

Wildfires tearing through North America and Europe, intensified by climate change, have destroyed homes and forests and forced thousands of people from their communities. In Canada's boreal forests, nearly a thousand fires are burning, triggering evacuations and sending toxic smoke drifting into major Canadian and American cities — smoke that prompted President Trump to accuse Canada of "poisoning" the US's air. The Guardian reports that past wildfires offer a warning about what comes next: three years after the Maui fires, a study found many survivors still grappling with lasting biological, emotional, and social effects. History suggests this crisis won't end when the flames go out.

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