How climate change stoked Canada's record-breaking wildfires

The hot, dry conditions that fueled the blazes were at least twice as likely because of the influence of human-caused global warming. And they were at least 20 percent more intense than they would have been in a world without climate change.

The research consortium World Weather Attribution, which investigates the links between climate change and individual extreme weather events, released the findings Tuesday.

The new study found that Indigenous communities, as well as remote, difficult-to-access communities, were disproportionately affected by this summer’s wildfires. Limited resources and geographic barriers to wildfire response teams made them more vulnerable.