Prescribed burning of ground-level shrubs, branches and leaves is a time-tested tool to help prevent wildland fires from getting out of control, but a team led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine suggests ...
Environment
May 17, 2022
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Just over 9,900 wildfires burned about 4.3 million acres in 2020. That's more than twice the previous record of acres burned in California. Yet it is about average compared to burn rates likely experienced before Euro-American ...
Ecology
May 4, 2022
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In the past several years, California has endured the most extreme fires in its recorded history.
Ecology
Apr 7, 2022
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Wildfires fueled by dry, windy conditions have destroyed dozens of homes in Texas and threatened hundreds of others there and in Oklahoma and Florida this March. They're a sharp reminder to be prepared for what forecasters ...
Environment
Mar 21, 2022
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Research conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) describes a validation exercise for simple models used to understand hot spot conditions reached in an implosion, which find good agreement when compared ...
Plasma Physics
Mar 1, 2022
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Boating slowly upriver through the Pantanal, the world's biggest tropical wetlands, Brazilian biologist Fernando Tortato scans the bank for signs of Ousado, a jaguar badly burned in devastating wildfires last year.
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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Wildfires burn millions of acres of land every year, leaving changed landscapes that are prone to flooding. Less well known is that these already vulnerable regions can also intensify and in some cases initiate thunderstorms.
Environment
Sep 8, 2021
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Setting fire to forest and agricultural land in Southeast Asia to prepare it for cultivation or grazing contributes to an estimated 59,000 premature deaths a year, say scientists.
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2021
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,Like many people, I will remember this summer in shades of gray and red. As snapshots of a dull orange sun circulated social media, "zombie fires" rose from the Russian permafrost, entire towns were wiped off the map and ...
Environment
Aug 20, 2021
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Even in the wettest parts of the Amazon, the impact of forest fires, which spread through these areas only during extreme droughts, is sufficient to change the characteristics of the vegetation in the coming decades, although ...
Ecology
Aug 17, 2021
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