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Terrible Beauty
In 2012 the lightning-caused High Park Fire burned 140 square miles and destroyed more than 250 homes in the foothills near Fort Collins, Colorado. Such large, catastrophic wildfires are increasing in the western United States – and now globally – due to a warming, drying climate and intensifying human activity in our forestlands. Environmental and economic impacts of these wildfires are felt locally as forests and homes are destroyed – and universally as smoke and carbon dioxide spread throughout our shared atmosphere. Tackling climate change is a key challenge for the future of humanity and the welfare and biodiversity of Planet Earth.
Terrible Beauty
In 2012 the lightning-caused High Park Fire burned 140 square miles and destroyed more than 250 homes in the foothills near Fort Collins, Colorado. Such large, catastrophic wildfires are increasing in the western United States – and now globally – due to a warming, drying climate and intensifying human activity in our forestlands. Environmental and economic impacts of these wildfires are felt locally as forests and homes are destroyed – and universally as smoke and carbon dioxide spread throughout our shared atmosphere. Tackling climate change is a key challenge for the future of humanity and the welfare and biodiversity of Planet Earth.