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Western Wildfire Season 2022
The American West has endured significant impacts from climate change in 2022, and as we enter the warmest months of the year, it’s expected to get worse. Record heat and drought, worsened by human-caused climate change, are increasing the threat of extreme fire behavior. New Mexico has already suffered through a year’s worth of fire activity - just through April, and globally, this year is the fifth warmest on record, so far.
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Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk
Study key findings & significance
- This is the first comprehensive assessment of how climate change will restructure the global mammalian virome (the collection of viruses found among mammals), focusing on geographic range shifts.
- Even under the most optimistic climate scenarios, the coming decades will see roughly 300,000 first encounters between species that normally don’t interact, leading to about 15,000 spillovers wherein viruses enter naive hosts.
- Of particular concern is that animal habitats will move disproportionately in the same places as human sett
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