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How can we stop wildfires?

The Inquiry

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The History of Wildfires

The history of wildfires goes back to the history of plants moving from the water onto land which happened 400 million years ago. We have hundreds of species that simply will not reproduce unless there's a fire. Wildfires are then at least to some extent necessary but as we heard from Liz Goldman in part two the evidence strongly suggests they are becoming more extreme. So what's changed?

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