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N.C. State: Climate Change May Make Wildfires Larger, More Common in Southern Appalachian Region
January 17, 2024
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release:

In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found that more extreme and frequent droughts would dramatically increase the amount of forest burned by wildfire in the southern Appalachian region of the Southeast through the end of the century.

In a study published in Fire Ecology, researchers found the most severe and frequent drought scenario wo . . .

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