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Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told
2013-06-04 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate change, the country's forest service chief told Congress on Tuesday. But the forest service was forced to make sharp cuts to fire prevention programmes, and reduce the numbers of fire-fighters and engines because of budget pressures, Thomas Tidwell, the chief of the United States Forest Service, told...
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