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A warming Arctic means more wildfires sparked by lightning

By Kelsey Lindsey June 29, 2017
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Weeks after multiple lightning-caused wildfires in Southwest and Western Alaska were extinguished, a NASA study released Monday shows that these types of fires are on the rise in North American boreal forests.

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