Hot, dry, and deadly: this was the summer when the consequences of global warming proved impossible to ignore. Nowhere was this more apparent than on the western fire lines, where after a decade of battling bigger (and badder) blazes, firefighters have come to realize they're at war with climate change, onearth.org/wildfires The fires were fueled in part by a drought that parched farmland across the nation, driving up food prices and forcing ranchers to sell off cattle because there was nothing to feed them. Our correspondents report on the damage. onearth.org/drought2O12
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