Malcolm North: Climate Change and Wildfires

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Channel: UC Davis · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Malcolm North, a UC Davis professor and U.S. Forest Service research scientist, studies the effects of fire on Sierra Nevada coniferous forests. North explains how climate change and a history of fuel suppression in the forest mean wildfires will burn hotter, faster, longer and more often -- indefinitely.

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