When the Lawn Becomes the Fuse: How Climate Change Is Rewiring Grass and Wildfire

Earth911
May 18, 2026, 7:01 am119 ptsTrending
More than 25,000 square miles of the U.S. Great Basin, an area nearly twelve times the size of Yellowstone, has flipped from native sagebrush to invasive annual grassland over the past three decades, much of it without ever burning. The change is amplifying the Western fire season. Researchers using satellite…

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