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Yale Environment 360: As brutal fires torch tinder-dry dense forests and neighboring homes in the American West, researchers are examining the relationships between drought, wildfire, and a warming climate, predicting mass forest die-offs and prolonged megadrought for the Southwest. These forces are accelerating, they say, and already transforming the landscape. Unchecked, they may permanently destroy forests in the southwestern U.S. and in some other regions around the world.
Across the West, “megafires” have become......
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Megadrought in US Southwest: A bad omen for forests globally
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Caroline Fraser on June 21st, 2013
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