Professor Glen MacDonald interviewed on KCRW’s Press Play about global wildfire season

August 2, 2018
Wildfires like the one pictured above have been increasing in California due to climate change.

Glen MacDonald, the John Muir Memorial Chair in Geography at UCLA, was interviewed during a segment of the KCRW radio show Press Play. Professor MacDonald shared a study on global changes in fire weather, which indicates that, “there has been an increase globally in the type of weather that produces fires and particularly in terms of the length of the fire season.”

Listen to the full interview at KCRW’s “Press Play”.

Additional coverage:

Global wildfire season | KCRW-FM’s “Press Play” UCLA In the News, 31 July 2018