Boreal Forest burnt by the mount shanks wild fire in Kootenay National Park, Canada

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Boreal Forest burnt by the mount shanks wild fire in Kootenay National Park, Canada. The Alberta tar sands in Canada are the largest industrial project on the planet, and the world's most environmentally destructive. Climate change exascerbated by tar sands mining is leading to both a greater frequency and ferocity of forest fires.

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