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-{{Card
+== Card #35: Forest Fires ==
-|number=35
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-|version=adult
-|title=Forest Fires
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+Forest fires start and spread more easily during droughts and heatwaves.
+</center>
+== Correction==
+===Causes===
+* [[En-en_adult_card_30_droughts|Droughts]]
+* [[En-en_adult_card_36_heat_waves|Heat Waves]]
+=== Consequences ===
+* [[En-en adult card 38 human health|Human health]] 630 people died in Californian wildfires in autumn 2018.
 == Other possible links ==
-=== Causes ===
+=== Other consequences ===
-[[En-en adult card 6 deforestation|Deforestation]]: Part of the deforestation is done by burning the forest, which can then degenerate into uncontrolled fire. This is what happened in the summer of 2019 in the Amazon and Australia.
+* [[En-en adult card 6 deforestation|Deforestation]] Deforestation is partly done by burning the forest, which can then degenerate into uncontrolled fire. This is what happened in the summer of 2019 in the Amazon and Australia.
+* [[En-en adult card 10 aerosols|Aerosols]] Smoke from wildfires has been shown to carry toxic particles.
+* [[En-en adult card 25 terrestrial biodiversity|Terrestrial biodiversity]] This is a more minor link, except for specific biodiversity-rich areas.
+* [[En-en adult card 32 decline agricultural yields|Decline of agricultural yields]] Generally forests burn better than wheat fields.
 == To go further ==
-=== Mega Fire ===
+=== Mega-Fire ===
-A Mega-fire is an extraordinary fire starting very large fires that devastate a very large area, without this appellation corresponding to a very precise scientific definition. We usually speak of a mega fire when the affected area is at least 1,000 to 10,000 hectares. Mega-fires account for only 3% of all fires, yet represent 50% of global losses<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=X8CnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12&dq=m%C3%A9gafeu+d%C3%A9finition&source=bl&ots=4mr41HwgSe&sig=ACfU3U1wsXSuuJ8L6hLmP_9Gu28cC4XI3w&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfjK7Dro7nAhXl8OAKHQL_C8s4ChDoATAGegQIChAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Joelle Zask, When the Forest Burns: Thinking about the New Ecological Disaster (French)]</ref>. 96% of the last 500 mega-fires in the last 10 years took place during a period of abnormally high heat and/or drought<ref>[https://www.unenvironment.org/fr/actualites-et-recits/recit/les-megafeux-sont-ils-la-nouvelle-norme United Nations Are "megafires" the new standard? (French)]</ref>.
+A Mega-fire is an exceptionally large fire, causing large local fires that devastate expansive areas, without this appellation corresponding to a very precise scientific definition. We usually speak of a mega-fire when the affected area is at least 1,000 to 10,000 hectares. Mega-fires account for only 3% of all fires, yet represent 50% of global losses<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=X8CnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12&dq=m%C3%A9gafeu+d%C3%A9finition&source=bl&ots=4mr41HwgSe&sig=ACfU3U1wsXSuuJ8L6hLmP_9Gu28cC4XI3w&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfjK7Dro7nAhXl8OAKHQL_C8s4ChDoATAGegQIChAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Joelle Zask, When the Forest Burns: Thinking about the New Ecological Disaster (French)]</ref>. 96% of the last 500 mega-fires in the last 10 years took place during a period of abnormally high heat and/or drought<ref>[https://www.unenvironment.org/fr/actualites-et-recits/recit/les-megafeux-sont-ils-la-nouvelle-norme United Nations Are "megafires" the new standard? (French)]</ref>.
 === Examples of events ===
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 === Article(s) ===
-[http://bancpublic.net/article.php?id=5745 Feu la Terre, sur les mégafeux (French)]
+[http://bancpublic.net/article.php?id=5745 Fire the Earth, on the mega-fires (French)]
 == References ==
 <references />
+[[fr:Fr-fr_adulte_carte_35_incendies]]