Climate change main cause of fires in US west

Climate change main cause of fires in US west – study

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 03, 2021 12:05 am

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.

In this file photo taken on August 19, 2020 a home continues to burn as flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fire spread in Vacaville, California. AFP PHOTO

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