Humans tripled length of wildfire season in US by sparking more than 800k blazes

Mongabay
Feb 27, 2017, 3:37 pm163 pts
Over the past decade, the United States has experienced increasingly intense wildfire seasons, especially in the west. In California, for instance, there were nearly 7,000 wildfires last year, which collectively burned well over half a million acres of land, according to the state’s Department of Forestry and…

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