{"id":375902,"date":"2018-09-03T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-wildfire-reshaping-us-west-amid-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:38:45","slug":"presstv-wildfire-reshaping-us-west-amid-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-wildfire-reshaping-us-west-amid-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Wildfire reshaping US West amid climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Wildfires in the US have charred more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square km) so far this year, an area larger than the state of Maryland, with large fires still burning in every Western state including many that are not fully contained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether sparked by lightning or humans, fire has long been a force shaping the landscape of the U.S. West.<\/p>\n<p>Hot, dry winds can whip flames into firestorms that leave behind charred wastelands prone to erosion and mudslides. Other fires clear out underbrush, open the forest floor to sunlight and stimulate growth.<\/p>\n<p>Government agencies in recent decades effectively upended that cycle of destruction and rebirth. Fire suppression policies allowed fuels to build up in many Western forests, making them more susceptible to major fires.<\/p>\n<p>Those influences are magnified as development creeps ever deeper into forests and climate change brings hotter temperatures. Recent images of subdivisions ablaze thrust the power&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/03\/573049\/Wildfire-reshaping-US-West-amid-climate-change\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires in the US have charred more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square km) so far this year, an area larger than the state of Maryland, with large fires still burning in every Western state including many that are not fully contained. Whether sparked by lightning or humans, fire has long been a force shaping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}