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Wildfires. Or, how climate change is leading to more climate change

Blazes have, since 2016, reversed 25% of air quality improvements made since 2000.

Matthew Diebel
Sep 21, 2023
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Smoke from wildfires in October 2017 turned the skies red along the California coast. Above, the bloody sunset over San Francisco Bay. Photo: Shelly Prevost/flickr.

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