Canadian wildfires have burned more than 25 million acres (10 million hectares) so far this year, a record-breaking figure that has far surpassed scientists’ most pessimistic predictions

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The prior all-time high occurred in 1989, when 7.3 million hectares were burned over the course of an entire year, according to national figures from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).