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More Frequent Combined Droughts, Heatwaves Are Recipe for U.S. Megafires

The Pacific Northwest, southern parts of the Southwest, Florida, and parts of the Northeast saw the most dramatic increases in these events.

2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Winners Named
The science journalism awards, administered by AAAS since their inception in 1945, honor distinguished reporting for a general audience.
2017 STPF Fellows’ Choice Reading List
2017 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize Winners Announced
Senator Whitehouse speaks out about climate change
Worldwide decline in large, old trees alarms scientists
<i>Science</i>: Global Warming May Increase Frequency of U.S. Lightning Strikes
More lightning strikes could trigger wildfires and change the chemistry of our atmosphere.
Cuts for EPA, Flat Funding for USGS in House Interior Bill
The Forest Service also received an increase for research activities amid fights over emissions regulation and EPA in the House committee-approved bill.
AAAS Joins Leading Scientific Organizations in Letter to Senators Reaffirming Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
On Great Plains, Juniper Invasion Signals Prairies in Distress
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