2023: The Year of the Wildfire in Türkiye and the Wider World
Kadir Alperen Coşkuner
Assoc. Prof., Dr., Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Forest Engineering, Faculty Member
Wildfires have caused serious ecological, economic, and social repercussions throughout the world in the last decade or so. As such, 2023 became known as the year that harrowing disasters wrought widespread destruction unto various regions of the earth. Canada experienced the most devastating wildfires since her founding, in which 18.5 million hectares (5.1% of the…