Climate Change(El Niño and La Niña). Rings of fire: centuries of tree growth show wildfires increasing in Vietnam
Climate Changes. Rings of fire : centuries of tree growth show wildfires increasing in Vietnam The data suggest human activities are more to blame for the increase than climate change. (Nature NEWS 19 July 2023) Increasing human presence in and around Bidoup Nui Ba National Park has resulted in more frequent wildfires. Credit: Evgeniya Pavlova/Getty The first centuries-long analysis of wildfires in southeast Asia has been compiled using tree rings from a region in central Vietnam. There has been a drastic increase in the frequency of wildfires in the area over the past 100 years, but climate change is not the primary culprit. Instead, humans lighting fires for agriculture are behind the rising number of forest burns, according to the study 1 published in Geophysical Research Letters . “Fire has a big impact on the forest structure,” says Thiet Nguyen, a forest ecologist and PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia. “There’s a very high level of bi...