Drought and Fire

Severe summer drought recalls damaging dust bowl days. - Over the past six weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 1,821 counties in 35 states as disaster areas, at least 1,692 of them due to drought. the agency is calling it the worst drought in more than 50 years.

Is it too late to defuse the danger of megafires? - Forests in the southwest have become a fuel stockpile. a century of U.S. forest service policy of quashing all fires has allowed forests to become overgrown, and now a warming climate is making the problem worse. Scientists are trying to defuse these green time bombs. is it too late?