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Oct
19
2020

Climate change increases the risk of wildfires

By Jose L. Cánovas
Wildfire in Portugal
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From December 2019 and into 2020, fires burned in Australia like never before. Extreme heat and drought led to an unprecedented fire season in the forests of the southeast of the country, razing some 18 million hectares of land and affecting more than three billion animals.

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