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| - | Pacific Indigenous leaders have a new plan to protect whales. Treat them as people | + | A plant that’s everywhere is fueling |
| - | For Māori conservationist Mere Takoko, “losing one whale is like losing an ancestor.” The animals “taught our people about navigation across the Pacific, particularly across the Milky Way… And this is information that was given to our ancestors.” | + | |
| - | The environmental activist from the small town of Rangitukia, on New Zealand’s east coast, is spearheading a movement of Indigenous groups | + | |
| + | A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires | ||
| - | The document | + | Grass is as plentiful as sunshine, and under the right weather conditions is like gasoline for wildfires: All it takes is a spark for it to explode. |
| - | While the declaration is non-binding | + | Planet-warming emissions are wreaking havoc on temperature |
| - | “Our mokopuna (grandchildren) deserve | + | “Name an environment and there’s a grass that can survive there,” said Adam Mahood, research ecologist |
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| + | Grass fires are typically less intense and shorter-lived than forest fires, but can spread exponentially faster, outrun firefighting resources and burn into the growing number | ||
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| + | Over the last three decades, the number of US homes destroyed by wildfire has more than doubled as fires burn bigger and badder, a recent study found. Most of those homes were burned not by forest fires, but by fires racing through grass and shrubs. | ||
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| + | The West is most at risk, the study found, where more than two-thirds | ||
| + | One part of the equation is people are building closer to fire-prone wildlands, in the so-called wildland-urban interface. The amount of land burning in this sensitive area has grown exponentially since the 1990s. So has the number | ||
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| + | Building in areas more likely to burn comes with obvious risks, but because humans are also responsible for starting most fires, it also increases the chance a fire will ignite in the first place. | ||
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| + | More than 80,000 homes are in the wildland-urban interface, in the sparsely populated parts of Kansas | ||
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| + | Property owners “need to do their part too, because these fires – they get so big and intense and sometimes wind-driven that they could spot miles ahead even if we have a huge fuel break,” King said. | ||