Sentences with phrase «extending wildfire seasons»

Climate disruption in California — including record high temperatures, ongoing drought, tree die off and bark beetle outbreaks — has increased the state's wildfire risk by extending wildfire seasons, expanding at risk areas, and increasing fire size.

That's because hot temperatures, which are being driven by climate change, are worsening and extending wildfire seasons.

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The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance, extending well beyond the current seasonal forecast and helping segments of the economy related to agriculture, water management and forestry.

Already, more than 10,000 people die each day from the small particles emitted from fossil - fuel burning; each year, 339,000 people die from wildfire smoke, in part because climate change has extended forest - fire season (in the U.S., it's increased by 78 days since 1970).