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Climate Change Blamed for Half of Increased Forest Fire Danger

A study found that human-caused warming was responsible for 55 percent of the rise in the dryness of the landscape in the western United States. [Source]

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Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Wildfires

Topics: States, United, western, landscape, dryness, percent, responsible, warming, human-caused, found, study, Danger, Forest, Increased, Blamed, Change, Climate

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/science/climate-change-forest-fires.html?partner=rss&emc=rss