Climate Change Impacts Explained in Real Time

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Watch Western Wildfires Burn After Years of Drought

 United States

Alaska in flames animation by EcoWest and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University.

Alaska in flames animation by EcoWest and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University.

A new interactive map shows how wildfires have ravaged the western United States in 2015 – and over the past decade.

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