lying coastal areas by raising sea levels. In Canada, with about 10 percent of world forests, the area burned in the 1980s-90s roughly doubled from the 1970s, according to the National Forest Strategy Coalition which unites 67 groups from conservationists to government agencies. And 60 percent of Canada's 8,500 annual forest fires are caused by humans, according to the coalition which meets in Toronto on Thursday and Friday. Rain forests, like in the Amazon, are wetter and so less vulnerable to fire. --More 2330 Local Time 2030 GMT
