Climate change will boost number of U.S. West’s wildfires

Reuters: Climate change will make wildfires in the West, like those now raging in parts of Colorado and New Mexico, more frequent over the next 30 years, researchers reported on Tuesday. More broadly, almost all of North America and most of Europe will see an increase in wildfires by the year 2100, the scientists wrote in the journal Ecosphere, a publication of the Ecological Society of America. The U.S. Southwest - Arizona, New Mexico and Texas - is the fastest-warming region of the United States,......

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