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...