Author: Ajit Niranjan with graphics by Lucy Swan, Harvey Symons and Paul Scruton

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Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide

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 infernoThe ruinous fires that overran parts of France this summer have burned more land than ever reco…

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