Thursday, June 14, 2012

Study: Climate change leaves American West especially vulnerable to wildfires

Colorado Independent: Rising temperatures are projected to trigger more wildfires in most of North America and Europe, according to a new study, but climate change may have the opposite effect around the equator. The American West, where massive conflagrations are currently chewing up parts of Colorado and New Mexico, will be especially vulnerable to wildfires over the next three decades, according to scientists from the University of California-Berkeley and Texas Tech University. Their study, published today in the...

URL: http://coloradoindependent.com/121993/study-climate-change-leaves-american-west-especially-vulnerable-to-wildfires
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