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How Climate Change Is Making Wildfire Season Worse

"While there have always been the occasional big fires, they have gotten much, much more common since roughly 2000," author Gary Ferguson says.
"Land on Fire," by Gary Ferguson. (Jackson Mitchell/Here & Now)

This summer there have been dozens of fires burning in the West, which has been experiencing record-high temperatures.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with Gary Ferguson (@GaryAFerguson), author of the book “Land on Fire,” about why wildfires have been burning hotter and longer in recent decades.

Book Excerpt: ‘Land On Fire’

By Gary Ferguson

Across my thirty-five years of writing about the natural and cultural history

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