Climate change is fueling fires in the West
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund
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Climate change is fueling fires in the West –
The Sand Fire that blazed through Southern California this week destroyed 38,000 acres in the Santa Clarita Valley. This latest inferno is part of a trend of more frequent and intense wildfires brought on by heat and drought. Since the late 1970s, the number of fires on public lands in the West has increased 500 percent. Climate Central
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