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Study finds climate change is increasing length of wildfire seasons across globe

July 20, 2015 /

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The length of wildfire seasons across the globe and the burnable areas of Earth’s surface have drastically increased in the past three decades due to climate change, according to a groundbreaking new study supported by years of research from the U.S. Forest Service’s Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory http://www.firelab.org/

DAVID ERICKSON For The Gazette

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