SCIENCE MONDAY SERIES:
AN EASY WAY OF EXPLAINING WHAT COULD BE A COMPLICATED ISSUE
You may have noticed that the west coast has been plagued by fires. The 2020 fire season has seen extreme devastation. In California alone, over a million acres have been consumed by fire, 3,749 structures have been reduced to ash, and seven people have lost their lives. The fire season isn’t even over — we still have two more months before the west coast is in the clear. The severity of these incidents may lead one to wonder: why is the world burning?
