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California towns scramble to prevent next wildfire catastrophe

California towns scramble to prevent next wildfire catastrophe

Wildfires loom all over, but the rural counties with poor and elderly residents face the greatest threats.
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California's mega-fires have arrived 30 years early

Scientists predicted climate change would fuel the kind of devastating wildfires that California has seen this year. Except it wasn't expected to happen for decades.

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How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters?

How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters?

As climate change-driven drought increasingly grips the state, experts turn to natural solutions to fight the flames.
In 20 years, wildfires will be six times larger

In 20 years, wildfires will be six times larger

Because of drought and rising temperatures, wildfires in the West will grow so large and regular they could reshape entire forests.

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