News tagged with forest fires
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Warming climate means harsher smog season for California
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising temperatures from climate change will increase ozone levels in California’s major air basins, according to a new report to the California Air Resources Board from scientists at UC Davis ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Wildfire prevention pays big dividends in Florida, study finds
A study by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and research partners suggests that wildfire prevention education in Florida pays for itself several times over by saving millions of dollars in fire-fighting ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Fires in Amazon challenge emission reduction program
Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59% of areas with reduced deforestation and risks cancelling part of the carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ...
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Researchers Work to Better Understand How Soot Emissions Impact Global Warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Tech, Carnegie Mellon University and the California Institute of Technology are collaborating to study the effects of soot on global warming.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2010 |
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4,000-year study supports use of prescribed burns in Southern Appalachians
A new study reconstructing thousands of years of fire history in the southern Appalachians supports the use of prescribed fire, or controlled burns, as a tool to reduce the risk of wildfires, restore and maintain forest health ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings
(PhysOrg.com) -- California's western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 and 1300 than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a new study led by Thomas W. Swetnam, director of UA's ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Habitat loss wiping out Europe's butterflies
The destruction of natural habitats in Europe is wiping out butterfly, beetle and dragonfly species across the region, the updated European "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.
Mar 16, 2010 |
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More frequent fires could aid ecosystems
With a changing climate there's a good chance that forest fires in the Pacific Northwest will become larger and more frequent - and according to one expert speaking today at a professional conference, that's ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Presence of snails points to forest recovery
A team of Catalan researchers has studied the changes in the make-up of animal populations following forest fires, and have concluded that malacological fauna are a good indicator of forest recovery. The conclusions ...
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Effects of forest fire on carbon emissions, climate impacts often overestimated
A recent study at Oregon State University indicates that some past approaches to calculating the impacts of forest fires have grossly overestimated the number of live trees that burn up and the amount of carbon ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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The secret life of smoke in fostering rebirth and renewal of burned landscape
The innermost secrets of fire's role in the rebirth and renewal of forests and grasslands are being revealed in research that has identified plant growth promoters and inhibitors in smoke. In the latest discovery ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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If a Tree Falls in the Forest...
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a century of increasing forest fires, hurricanes and plagues, Dr. Ben Bond-Lamberty, a terrestrial ecologist for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, suggests taking a fresh look ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact
The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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New forest fire detection system prototype installed at Lake Tahoe
Graham Kent, Nevada Seismological Laboratory director at the University of Nevada, Reno is leading the installation, testing and maintenance of a novel way to monitor forests fires and other environmental ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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NASA Aircraft Flies Calif. Wildfire Post-Burn Mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's remotely piloted Predator B aircraft, named Ikhana, recently conducted post-burn assessments of two Southern California wildfire sites, the Piute Fire in Kern County and the Station Fire in the Angeles ...
Nov 25, 2009 |
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