More Wildfires on the Way
2012-03-09
In some places, forest fires make up an important part of the natural ecosystem. Wild fires burn is an area of land greater than the country of India every year.
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Wildfires are Burning: Another Reason Why
2011-09-19
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In past decade, almost 78,000 fires have burned almost 7 million acres in the US and Texas is burning right now. There are several reasons for this: one of them has to do with climate change, but the other may be invasive plant species that have modified these landscapes, providing a fuel source that didn’t previously exist.
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Texas is Burning
2011-09-07
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Texas is home to presidential candidate Rick Perry, who denies global warming, but parts of the state are burning, due to a drought of historic proportions that has been intensified by excessive atmospheric heating predicted in global warming models. It is drier in Texas right now than it has been since the state began recording weather conditions and the result is predictable: fire. Previously, the six-year drought of the 1950s was the worst in Texas history, but it did not approach the extreme conditions being experienced now.
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Georgia is Burning Too
2002-06-26
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Horror stories about the raging wildfires in Colorado and Arizona have been on the front pages of our newspapers every day for the past few months. But another major fire, burning in Georgia, has been ignored by the media.
Fires just as large as the ones in the West have been burning for 3 months in Georgia’s 396,000 acre Okefenokee Swamp, causing layers of smoke to pollute the air over Florida, Alabama and South Carolina. So far, more than 124,000 acres have burned since March, which is equivalent to the wildfires in Arizona and Colorado. But the Georgia fires have been confined mostly to the uninhabited swamp, meaning no houses burned and no one had to be evacuated.
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