Just posted to the National Wildlife Federation blog on how climate change is fueling the Arizona wildfires and may be permanently changing Western wildlife habitats. Watch more as Scott Pelley of CBS’s 60 Minutes interviews Tom Boatner, the federal government’s chief of fire operations, on the front lines on the connection between global warming and wildfires:
Top Wildfire Fighter: “We’ve Had Climate Change Beat Into Us”
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