The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said Saturday.
Environment
Sep 1, 2019
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Mainland Spain and Portugal have broken temperature records for April, officials said Friday, as both nations wilt in an unusually early heatwave that has raised the risk of wildfires.
Environment
Apr 28, 2023
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Research by environmental scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) brings bad news to the western United States, where firefighters are currently battling dozens of fires in at least 11 ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2013
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Idaho's two large fires on August 10, 2013. The fires consist of the Pony Complex fire (left) and the Beaver Creek Complex fire (right). Both sets of fires were started by lightning ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Their name is comical, but when crazy ants infest a neighborhood it's no laughing matter.
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2012
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The Rim Fire, now three weeks old, is still burning through Yosemite Forest. The blaze, thought to have been started by a hunter's illegal fire, has consumed over 246,000 acres of land. At present, this fire is 80% contained ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2013
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The Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta. Canada, now at well over half-a-million acres in size and still out of control as of the time of this post (May 12, 2016), has brought a discussion about the intersection of climate ...
Environment
May 13, 2016
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(Phys.org) —Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2013
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Ants are social insects and the Solenopsis invicta species—known as the fire ant—is no exception. The social interactions of this invasive insect, which comes from South America, are framed within the context of the theory ...
General Physics
Jan 19, 2023
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Following 2020's extreme fire season, high-elevation forests in the central Rocky Mountains now are burning more than at any point in the past 2,000 years, according to a new University of Montana study set to publish in ...
Ecology
Jun 14, 2021
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