Wildfires in France: What is a fire cloud?

France has been battered by three heatwaves since May, with climate change contributing to extreme weather and fuelling devastating wildfires, experts say. As blazes grow more intense, so can the weather they create. In France, they have caused an unprecedented pyrocumulonimbus, or "fire cloud". CNA explains what fire clouds are and why scientists are paying closer attention to them.

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