Climate change not to blame for deadly Chile fires: researchers

Santiago (AFP) Feb 22, 2024

Neither human-induced climate change nor the El Nino weather phenomenon were determining factors in the devastating forest fires that killed more than 130 people in Chile this month, according to the results of an international study revealed Thursday.

Improper land use had a bigger impact, it found, with the expansion in recent decades of pine and eucalyptus monocultures – much more flamma
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