A recently conducted study revealed that it is known that trees play a vital role to combat global warming but it has been found that climate change and increasing temperature has led to the worsening of wildfires across the world.

Study published in the Nature Communication journal showed that increasing temperature led to worsening of wildfires and these wildfires intensified the climate change by destroying trees that could absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The study also showed that global wildfire season has extended by as much as 20% in the past 35 years. The researchers made these findings after collecting and analyzing earth’s vegetated surface data from 1973 to 2013.

According to the researchers, “We have shown that combined surface weather changes over the last three-and-a-half decades have promoted global wildfire weather season lengthening”.

The research paper detailed that the fire weather season has spread for about 29.6 million square kilometers nearly 11.4 million square miles. As per the official records, the United States spent nearly $1.7 billion per year in mitigating wildfires.

Researchers affirmed that wildfires occur when the humid weather, combustible resources, and available fuel interact with each other. The place where the wildfires incidents and intensity has increased the most is South America, researchers added.

According to climaterally.org, an average size tree can produce sufficient amount of oxygen in one year to provide oxygen for a family of four.

Researchers also noted that trees create more wood and paper products that can be recycled to lessen global warming.