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India is the world’s seventh largest country by area, covering 3.2 million square kilometers. Add another half a million square km, and that’s how much of our planet burned in the 2024-25 fire season. According to the new State of Wildfires report, these fires impacted 100 million people around the world and put around $US215 billion worth of homes and infrastructure at risk. Climate change is fueling more intense and frequent fires. We must urgently slash coal, oil and gas pollution to stop the