The same pattern holds everywhere you look. Earlier this summer, Canada’s export of smoke to the skies over New York generated the usual apocalyptic headlines, not to mention new tariff threats from Donald Trump. Yet Canada is having a below-average fire year, as is the United States. Both North America and South America as a whole are at all-time satellite lows. Africa, the most burned continent, is also at an all-time low, 44 per cent below normal. Oceania (which is mostly Australia) is 15 per cent below its usual burned area, and Asia has burned at near- record lows this year. Every continent is either below normal, far below normal or setting records for how little is burning.
