Of course, it's also fair to say that this news comes at a time of record wildfires in California and unprecedented sea ice melt in the Arctic, so even the ambitious levels of commitment currently emerging will need to be ramped up further. (treehugger.com)
In the summer of 2012, Box was on his way back to Greenland when he saw reports of record wildfires in his home state of Colorado on airport televisions. (ensia.com)
Last summer, east and southeast Texas saw record wildfires that cost the state millions of dollars, and the smoke and heat from wildfires that torched western Russia killed more than 50,000 people. (sciencemag.org)