Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - 12:40 in Earth & Climate

Logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of fire and likely had a profound effect on the recent, catastrophic Australian bushfires, according to new research. In the wake of the country's worst forest fires in recorded history, researchers have been investigating Australia's historical and contemporary land-use.

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