About a month ago, New York City turned orange.

People were trudging to work like normal and buying bodeg sandwiches,

but it was all through this apocalyptic fog.

The fog had drifted down to us from Canada.

Wildfires have been burning there throughout the first half of this summer. This was the

first time that I'd felt the effects of a wildfire personally. But I knew, as you probably know,

that they're getting worse all over the world. In California and South Africa, in places you

wouldn't expect, like Germany and the Amazon.

And most recently, on a number of islands in Greece.

Greece is bracing itself for another day of intense heat with wildfires continuing to rage.

The worst affected areas are the islands of roads and Evia,

where the fires have been burning for days.

These fires are getting worse because of climate change.

But saying that can feel really abstract, because climate change is so many little things

in so many different places.

It left me with a lot of questions.

And it left my colleague Henry Mance with questions too.

You see these pictures of places on fire.

And especially if you're not from a region where burning is part of the ecosystem, part of the landscape.

It just seems incredible that we live alongside this and it gets worse and it gets worse and we throw firefighters at it and we throw planes and we throw helicopters

and we we can't do anything yeah and so I wanted to sort of speak to people and find out about

like you know how they think about it how they you know firefighters how are they dealing with

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