A human-driven decline in global burned area

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2017-06-30

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.aal4108PMID 28663495PMCID PMC6047075
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