AFRICA’S WILDFIRE SEASON IS ACTUALLY GETTING SHORTER, SCIENTISTS THINK THEY KNOW WHY

A changing climate seems to be shortening Africa’s dry season, resulting in less land scorched during the wildfire season according to new science. For all the column inches devoted to the record wildfire seasons in France, Spain, or the Amazon, it is still and has always been Africa that’s the center of world wildfires.

Good News Network reports that a changing climate seems to be shortening Africa’s dry season, resulting in less land scorched during the wildfire season according to new science.

The report adds: For all the column inches devoted to the record wildfire seasons in France, Spain, or the Amazon, it is still and has always been Africa that’s the center of world wildfires.

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