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California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

  • Written by Stephen Pyne, Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Wind whips embers from a tree burned by a wildfire in Riverside, Calif. Oct. 31, 2019. AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu

Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall.

Free-burning fire is the proximate provocation for the havoc, since its ember storms are engulfing landscapes. But in...

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