Here are 5 reasons deadlier & more destructive wildfires have become a new normal — all related to climate change: -It's getting hotter & hotter -Earlier snowmelts -Drier conditions -Fire season becomes 'fire year' -Pests weaken trees -Burn areas grow
More than a dozen wildfires displace hundreds of thousands of Californians.Nearly 30 million people from California to Arizona wake up to red-flag warnings that signal conditions ripe for fire danger. Utilities throw entire communities into darkness in hopes of reducing the risks. More than 94,000 acres have already burned. Vasts forests of dead trees create have become tinderboxes. "This is only the beginning," former California Gov. Jerry Brown told Politico this week.
Animals evacuated from wildfire have happy ending 02:00"The length of fire season is estimated to have increased by 75 days across the Sierras and seems to correspond with an increase in the extent of forest fires across the state."Additionally, the risk of blazes grows as the fire season expands from the long, dry summer into the fall months-- with intense Santa Ana and Diablo wind events increasing the ability for rapid and dangerous spread.
California fires force thousands to evacuate across the state 01:42The increased size of wildfires occurring across California in the last 50 years is attributable to climate change, according to the recent study published in Earth's Future.Since the early 1970s, California wildfires have increased in size eightfold, the study said. The annual burned area has grown by nearly 500%.
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