08/09/2023

At Least Six Dead in Maui Wildfires

Deadly wildfires burning across Maui prompt evacuations

The wildfires that ripped through Hawaii on Tuesday and Wednesday are "unnerving," and comparable to the landscape-altering wildfires that are common in the West, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. 

But Fleishman told CNN she wouldn’t be surprised “if wildfires in many parts of the world that are not accustomed to them become more common over time, or become larger or spread more rapidly.”

That’s because the human-caused climate crisis has exacerbated the hot and dry conditions that allow wildfires to ignite and grow in many parts of the planet.

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