A changing climate seems to be shortening Africa’s dry season, resulting in less land scorched during the wildfire season according to new science. For all the column inches devoted to the record wildfire seasons in France, Spain, or the Amazon, it is still and has always been Africa that’s the center of world wildfires. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, examined records of rainfall complied across Africa covering a period between 1990 and 2023. The result suggests that increased rainfall contributed to delayed dry season onset in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with the season starting approximately 1.75 days later decade-by-decade in the north, and 0.4 days in the south. WILDFIRE PREVENTION: Meet the ‘Firefighting’ Donkeys of Spain, Chowing Down on Grass and Fire Risk from Dawn to DuskThe study did have some drawbacks.