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As record-breaking fires blacken millions of hectares in California and elsewhere in the western US this year, politicians are mostly sticking to a standard script in response. US President Joe Biden’s proposed budget this year includes a US$500 million boost to what the White House calls “forest management” and other efforts to reduce wildfire risk. In July, California lawmakers approved US$1.5 billion in similar prevention spending. The funds are in addition to the US$2 billion the federal government spends each year fighting fires — a figure twice what it was 10 years ago and roughl...

LOS ANGELES – It’s only the start of California’s fire season, but the number of wildfires so far is outpacing averages and even last year's historic fire season, which scorched millions of acres and included four of the five largest fires in the state’s history.  A perfect recipe for another disastrous fire season is coming together in California, experts fear. The past 12 months have been the state's driest on record, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, compounding the fire danger from the ongoing drought and soaring summer temperatures. “We’...

Scientists contend that hot, dry, windy conditions fuel the state's most deadly and destructive blazes — not overgrown forests