Wildfires erupted in China’s southwestern municipality of Chongqing on August 17, 2022, as the nation continued to struggle with its worst heatwaves in six decades. High temperatures triggered the wildfires on a mountainside, where firefighters had to spend nearly three days trying to put out blazes that kept reigniting because of the heat. About half of China’s land mass has endured the longest sustained period of high temperatures recorded in six decades. Shipping has been halted as water…