Clearing bush by itself won't help much if changes in climate are largely responsible for increasingly severe forest fires.
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现在科学家利用它们来测量某一范围的气候——比方说个别植物下的气候而不是灌木丛里的气候。
Scientists now use them to measure the climate in areas that would have been impractically small when sensors were more costly-say under individual plants rather than in a thicket.