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Future Wildfire Seasons to Be Longer, Smokier, and Cover More Area
2013-08-29 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Fire seasons will be three weeks longer, generate twice as much smoke, and cover a larger area of the western U.S. by 2050, a new study from Harvard researchers finds. The risk of large fires could also increase by a factor of two to three. In general, the biggest driver for future fires in Western states will be temperature, but driving factors can vary from region to region, the researchers say. In the Rockies, for example, moisture in the forest floor is the biggest predictor. Wildfires in the...
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