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Washington Post on 2018-01-11 17:21

How California’s harrowing wildfires planted the seed for deadly mudslides

It's one of nature's more tragic paradoxes; a terrible wildfire season often leads to terrible mudslides. But it's probably not for the reason you suspect.

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