Thursday, May 25, 2017

Wildfires and Droughts

Iceland doesn't experience drought or wildfires. They have plenty of access to fresh water and officials have even considered capitalizing on that as the projected supply available in the world is going to decrease.

I looked at the DW.com site concerning increased wildfires throughout the world. I found it interesting that Iceland, Greenland, Asia and smaller portions of land on each continent would not deal with this issue. Some areas are projected to actually have a decrease in wildfires because of increasing drought. It leaves much in question as so few areas will have less occurrences of wildfires and less access to fresh water. This will lead to great tensions over the natural resources of agricultural land and access to water.




Sources:
http://www.invest.is/files/skjol/pdff/natural_hazards_extract.pdf

http://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-fuels-wildfires-around-the-world/a-16518572


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