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Dried buffelgrass, an invasive species that leads to faster growing wildfires, is seen on the side of a hill near a trail in Tucson, Arizona

World

Invasive firestarter: How non-native grasses turned Hawaii into a tinderbox

After a catastrophic wildfire that killed more than 100 people in Hawaii, eyes have turned toward an unexpected culprit: invasive grass species that have...

AFPAugust 17, 2023

Desert sky: Joshua trees have been scorched in the out-of-control York Fire that is tearing through the Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States

World

‘Fire whirls’ threaten Joshua tree desert in scorching US

A huge wildfire was raging out of control through the environmentally sensitive Mojave Desert on Monday, with “fire whirls” threatening the Joshua trees that...

AFPJuly 31, 2023

New, more resistant varieties of peaches are being grown on the campus of the University of Georgia, in Griffin

Business

As climate changes, farms in US ‘Peach State’ Georgia suffer

From a distance, everything looks normal: neat rows of peach trees, their green leaves fluttering in the wind, near a pretty little American farmhouse. ...

AFPJuly 15, 2023