Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California – a new study shows how climate change is driving the expansion

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Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California – a new study shows how climate change is driving the expansion

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Parts of California are seeing fire season start more than 10 weeks earlier now than in the 1990s.

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