Climate change will burn Yosemite

Wild fires within California’s world famous Yosemite National Park are set to become more frequent and severe due to climate change.

New research has unpicked how this may happen; and it is not just that warming temperatures directly trigger more fires.

They will also reduce the amount of snow that covers the forest in winter.

That lack of snow will then allow lightening strikes to trigger more fires, which burn more intensely.

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