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Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, congress told

Source(s): Guardian, the (UK)
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America's wildfire season has become two months longer than it used to be 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it used to due to the hotter, drier conditions induced by climate change, the country's forest service chief, Thomas Tidwell told Congress on Tuesday, reports The Guardian.

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Last checked: 16 July 2021

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Hazards Wildfire
Themes Climate change
Country and region United States of America

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