Researchers link wildfires, climate change

July 21st, 2006 in Space & Earth / Environment
Researchers link wildfires, climate change (AP)

A wildfire burns in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness north of Grand Marais, Minn., Tuesday, July 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Scientists worldwide are watching temperatures rise, the land turn dry and vast forests go up in flames. In the Siberian taiga and Canadian Rockies, in southern California and Australia, researchers find growing evidence tying an upsurge in wildfires to climate change, an impact long predicted by global-warming forecasters.

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