[MCN] Combustion of fossil fuels --> combustion of forests in western US and Canada --> smoke

[Lance Olsen]

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More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in ...

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5 days ago — More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find.

Almost 40% of western wildfires traced to carbon emissions

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5 days ago — Carbon emissions from fossil fuels and cement production are making western forests drier and more susceptible to wildfire, researchers say.

The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires

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5 days ago — Some of the world's largest fossil fuel producers are now directly connected to wildfires across western North America.

Fossil fuels contributed to more than one-third of western ...

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4 days ago — Fossil fuels contributed to more than one-third of western wildfires ... Approximately 37% of the total area burned by wildfires in the ...

Biggest Fossil Fuel Firms Responsible for a Third of ...

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5 days ago — Biggest Fossil Fuel Firms Responsible for a Third of Western Forests Burned, Study Finds. A 2015 wildfire in Oregon.

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could ...

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4 days ago — Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West's Wildfires. A new study from the Union of ...

New Study Quantifies Fossil Fuel Companies' Impact on ...

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4 days ago — New Study Quantifies Fossil Fuel Companies' Impact on Western Wildfires. The research could advance court cases that aim to hold polluters ...

Study links fossil fuel production with California wildfires

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4 days ago — The Union of Concerned Scientists says 37% of forest fires in the Western U.S. are linked with 88 fossil fuel and cement companies.

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“Schwartz and others (2010) found that grizzly bear survival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem declined 
as road density, number of homes, and site developments increased.”

Flathead National Forest Biological Assessment, December 2017 p. 104

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”   …  housing growth poses the main threat to protected areas in the United States 
whereas deforestation is the main threat in developing countries."
 
Volker C. Radeloff, Susan I. Stewart et al. Housing growth in and near United States 
protected areas limits their conservation value. PNAS. January 12, 2010. 

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/940.abstract?sid=4718e5e2-8fa3-475a-9b92-032f399600c3



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