It's technically true that total area burned globally has been on a downward trend.
That's a real piece of misdirect by Murdoch press though and typical of their editorial stance.
To quote Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the 5th
version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5) [1] (one of many similar studies)
* Burned area declined by 1.21±0.66% yr-1 20 , a cumulative decrease of 24.2±13.2% over 20 years.
* The global reduction is primarily driven by decreases in fire within savannas, grasslands, and croplands.
* Forest, peat, and deforestation fires did not exhibit long-term trends.
So, managed areas are increasingly having fewer fires for a variety of reasons and they're a big part of the non ice areas across the globe.
Forest fires aren't decreasing, more worrying areas that typically don't see frequent fires are now seeing fires more often.
The Fox message is that beacuse total global fire area is reducing there's no need to worry about massive forest fires in places that typically don't see such things.
If ten thousand acres of seasonal grass fires doesn't happen does that really offset a thousand acres of old growth forest being torched to the ground?
If you're seriously asking for my recommendation, as if that wasn't already apparent to the meanest intellect, then I would strongly suggest you look to the raw data and read informed papers on the aquisition and interpretation.
All 'news' papers, especially those that are heavily political and editorially biased (Murdoch's media empire, for example), will shape for eyeballs and reduce to the lowest common denominator.
You can see that I chose to go directly to an overview on the Global Fire Emissions Database and chose to quote directly from there.
The trite bite "Fires are actually decreasing." is meaningless sans context.
Many people do not have the time to read papers, jobs and life get in the way, which is why we use newspapers. WSJ happens to be one of the least biased papers, with a slight right lean.
Fires decreasing globally is not out of context here. I find that information interesting. Sure fires are increasing in other places but it seems to me your main concern is around people hearing that fires globally are decreasing.
> From 1 January to 31 July, accumulated carbon emissions from wildfires across Canada total 290 megatonnes. This is already more than double the previous record for the year as a whole and represents over 25% of the global total for 2023 to date.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/climate-change-hasnt-set-th...
https://archive.li/WfDJh