LOS ANGELES: Climate change caused overwhelmingly by human activity is the primary source of the unprecedented forest fires regularly ravaging the Western United States, according to a study published on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).
Fires destroyed an average of 13,500 square kilometers (sqkm) (5,200 square miles or sqm) per year in the American west between 2001 and 2018 — twice as much as between 1984 and 2000.
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