Night was once a time of reprieve during wildfire season, when the cool air and moist ground would temporarily slow the spread of angry blazes. But that's changing as the climate warms.
Now a new paper, published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, suggests that drought is largely to blame. Researchers from the University of Alberta analyzed the daily burning cycles of more than 23,000 fires across North America between 2017 and 2020.
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