Sentences with phrase «of acreage burned»

Both numbers are well above the long - term average and in the case of Alaska, are in record territory for the amount of acreage burned for this time of year.

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The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

That bests the previous mark of 9.87 million acres set in 2006, and it's the first time wildfire acreage burned has crossed the 10 - million acre threshold.

The early escalation in California grass fires fits the pattern of blazes that by 2050 will double the annual acreage that burned over the last 30 years, forest service officials reported.

That is an alarming two - and - a-half-times more acreage than was burned by June 3 last year, said Scott McLean, a spokesman for the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.

Of the 10 years with the largest acreage burned, nine have occurred since 2000, with many of the largest increases occurring in western stateOf the 10 years with the largest acreage burned, nine have occurred since 2000, with many of the largest increases occurring in western stateof the largest increases occurring in western states.

If you look at areas like Lake Victoria where there was a decrease, the Tanzanians during the study period deforested 27 + % of their forest acreage and burned it as firewood.

Weather and climate are the primary determinants of the total acreage burned in nearly all western forests, woodlands and shrublands (Littell et al. 2009, Jolly et al. 2015, Jin et al. 2015).

Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, compiled data from 1926 - 2017 showing that the acreage burned by U.S. wildfires has dropped fourfold since peaking in the 1930s, which was posted on the skeptics» website Climate Depot.

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