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Happy Monday listeners.

For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

Let's get the week started by catching up on a few science stories you might have missed.

First, you might remember that last week I mentioned that an unprecedented number of U.S. states were experiencing drought.

Those dry conditions have helped wildfires take hold, including in surprising spots like Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Here to tell us a little bit more about that situation is Andrea

Thompson, a scientific American associate editor who covers the environment, energy, and earth sciences.

So a lot of us are used to wildfires out west, energy, and earth sciences.

So a lot of us are used to wildfires out west, especially in places like California in recent years, but there's been more than 500 fires since October 1st in New Jersey.

There's been about 200 brush fires in Massachusetts in October, which is a 1,200 percent increase over the average. So, you know, it's clear

that this is really unusual. And the reason it's happening is because of the drought conditions

there and actually in a large part of the country. In terms of population, it's actually about

half of the country, about 149 million people.

The reason we're seeing the drought in the east right now is because we've just had a prolonged period where we haven't really gotten much rain that's been particularly true in

the northeast.

We have recently seen some rain hit in a few places, particularly from Louisiana, up into

the Ohio River Valley.

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