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Wildfires

The 2013 Alder Fire (pictured above) in Yellowstone National Park was one of five at the time caused by lightning strikes and fueled by warmer and drier weather and spread by strong winds. Lightning is attributed to 55 percent of burned acreage between 2016 and 2020. In 2020, California's largest fires were caused by lightning.

8 May 2021

How climate and wildfire risk are linked

An April 16 special broadcast by Seattle’s KOMO-TV on “the future of wildfires in our part of the world” provided a broad overview of the…

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