FIRE DANGER
Jul 01, 2019
3 minutes
by Alice Andre-Clark
In 2018, more than 8,000 wildfires tore through California. They burned an area larger than the state of Delaware. In 2017, wildfires across the United States burned about four times more land than they did 30 years earlier. What’s making so many places go up in smoke?
A WARMING PLANET
Climate change plays a big part in the wildfire increase. The Earth is getting warmer. Human activity such as burning oil and gas creates greenhouse gases. These trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. The average global temperature is about 1.3º Fahrenheit
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