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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Fire Age, and Much More

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Here’s our periodic round-up of climate-change news: California Wildfires Signal the Arrival of a Planetary Fire Agehttps://www.livescience.com/earth-has-entered-pyrocene-fire-age.htmlAnother 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 the hands of humans, combustion is also the deeper cause. Modern societies are burning lithic landscapes – once-living biomass now fossilized into coal, gas and oil – which is aggravating the burning of living landscapes. The World’s Fastest-Thinning Glacier Identifiedhttps://www.livescience.com/fastest-thinning-glacier-andes.htmlA glacier in Patagonia that has lost half its … Read more