After logging bans, Australia turns to “forest thinning”. Does it reduce fire risk?

In the aftermath of Australia's Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20, few policy questions have proved as persistent as how, exactly, to live with fire on a warming continent, leading to an unlikely battleground: the thinning of native forests.

After logging bans, Australia turns to “forest thinning”. Does it reduce fire risk?

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