Wildfires of the United States: Human or Climate-Caused?

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Paper Reviewed: Balch, J.K., Bradley, B.A., Abatzoglou, J.T., Nagy, R.C., Fusco, E.J. and Mahood, A.L. 2017. Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States. Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Science114: 2946-2951. Noting that the economic and ecological costs of wildfires in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades, Balch et […]

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June 9, 2017 at 01:17AM