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Thanks in part to climate change, American West will see more fiery summers
2014-04-18 06:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Wildfires are getting bigger and more frequent in the American West. It`s not your imagination. And the summers ahead will bring more of them, even larger than the ones that came before. That`s the conclusion of a new study for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) prepared by a team of researchers led by Philip Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The authors used satellite data to measure areas of more than 1,000 acres burned by large fires from Nebraska to...
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