Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Competition Heats Up

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By Mitch RatcliffeMar 16, 2026, 7:00 am102 ptsTrending
Every wildfire starts small. The problem is that by the time most are detected, minutes have already passed and, under increasingly common conditions driven by a warming climate, a fire can grow beyond any tanker truck’s capacity to contain. The gap between ignition and coordinated response currently averages…

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