The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says, “Earth’s warming climate is amplifying wildland fire activity, particularly in northern and temperate forests.” According to NASA scientists, “extreme wildfires have become more frequent, more intense, and larger.”
“The largest increase in extreme fire behavior was in the temperate conifer forests of the Western U.S. and the boreal forests of Northern North America and Russia,” says NASA.
So why should we care about those fires here on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts? The smoke associated with those fires is having a significant impact on the quality of the air that we breathe.
State House News Service (SHNS) says, “The newly-released annual report from the American Lung Association (ALA) found that 156 million people, or 46% of the U.S. population, are living in areas that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution.”…