Like a hair dryer, it then strips the vegetation of a lot of its moisture, meaning that fire can catch quicker and the vegetation burn more readily.

Alex would like to see drug testing kits more readily available to drug users.

Still, it would have been nice had the information I was looking for been a little more readily available.

Braidwood wrote: "They enter more readily into the spirit of the business and are more easily trained."

But methane also generates heat much more readily than carbon dioxide — about 80 times more in its first 20 years in the atmosphere — meaning it contributes significantly towards global warming in the short term.