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PhysOrg: Over the past several months news of widespread wildfires has coursed through the media from every corner of the world. In the United States, the wildfire season is now two months longer than it was 100 years ago. In 2015 alone, over 9.3 million acres of land have burned in the U.S. (the 2nd largest amount on record) and with current elevated fire risk in California and Texas (as of 11/12/15) that number seems likely to rise by the end of the year. The manifold economic costs of fires to land and......
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Climate change and the catastrophic wildfire
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 23rd, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation