Sentences with phrase «more destructive wildfires»

Not exact matches

Check out Scientific American's wildfire coverage, including why global warming is expected to unleash more destructive fires.

The trend in wildfire destruction in California and throughout the West bends toward bigger, more destructive and drought - driven blazes.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive — as many scientific studies have concluded.

Higher temperatures diminish crop yields, melt the snow / ice reservoirs in the mountains that feed the earth's rivers, cause more - destructive storms, increase the area affected by drought, and cause more frequent and destructive wildfires.

Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive — as many scientific studies have concluded.

In 2011, more than 1,500 people lost their homes in Texas's most destructive wildfire.

Warmer and drier conditions — a result of climate change — are increasing the likelihood of wildfires occurring, along with their size, intensity, and duration, making fires more destructive and difficult to fight.

A key reason that wildfires have become more destructive, and fighting them more expensive, is that millions of Americans have made a conscious decision to move close to wildlands that are susceptible to fire — known by the infelicitous phrase the wildland - urban interface, or WUI.