California firefighter with prescribed burns
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Even in the flammable forests of the western United States, fire can be fought with fire.
An analysis of California's record-breaking 2020 fire season shows that intentionally burning land reduces the severity of damage from wildfires that subsequently scorch the area, even when accounting for smoke from the intentional fire itself. It is said to be able to reduce the amount of smoke. “We showed there was a net benefit,” he says. Makoto kelp at Stanford University in California.
The concept of “regulated combustion” is…
Source: www.newscientist.com
