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Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

23 September 2020

This image is a terrible reminder of the US wildfire crisis. Here it rages by California's Bidwell Bar Bridge, which spans Oroville Lake in Butte County
California fires

California's wildfires are driven by climate and human error

12 December 2017

Six separate wildfires are raging in California. They are driven both by hotter, drier climate and by human activities such as planting “alien” trees

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