According to a new study, climate change largely contributes in making wildfires worse throughout the world. An uncontrolled fire in a region of combustible vegetation that arises in the countryside area is known as a wildfire.

Wildfires are distinguished on the basis of the reason behind ignition, their physical properties like the combustible material present, speed of propagation and the impact of weather on the fire.

As per reports, wildfires are ‘quasi-natural’ hazards and this indicates they are not completely natural features such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tropical storms. This is for the reason that human activity also leads to them.

The study has been published in the Nature Communication journal. It shows that increasing temperature is the reason behind worsening of wildfires and these wildfires also added to the climate change since it destroyed trees that absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

It has been found in the new research that from the year 1979 to 2013, the fire season was much longer for more than a quarter of the vegetated surface. The fire weather season rose by approximately 19% all over the planet. This trend occurred on all the continents where such types of wildfires take place, excluding Australia.

According to authors of the study, “Fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area significantly increased across all vegetated continents except Australia. If these trends continue, increased wildfire potential may have pronounced global socio-economic, ecological and climate system impacts”.

According to researchers, wildfires arise when combustible resources, the humid weather and available fuel act together.