Dry lightning can still be disastrous even when conditions aren't so dry, a study has found. These cloud-to-ground strikes during little to no rainfall were previously thought to pose wildfire danger only if occurring with ...
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Aug 14, 2023
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Canada's military deployed to far north Sunday in the fight against hundreds of out-of-control wildfires as residents of several remote communities fled the advancing blazes.
Environment
Aug 14, 2023
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Washington firefighters now have more planning time and a longer season to ignite the controlled burns they use to prevent massive wildfires threatening landscapes and homes and blanketing the state in choking smoke.
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2023
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Wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui killed at least 96 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
Environment
Aug 14, 2023
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When Anthony La Puente made it back to the place he had called home for the last 16 years, there was almost nothing left.
Environment
Aug 12, 2023
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Wildfires, pushed by powerful winds, raced through Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, leaving a charred and smoldering landscape across the tourist town of about 13,000 residents that was once the capital of the Kingdom ...
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Aug 12, 2023
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Temperatures soared across Spain and Portugal on Wednesday as the two countries boil under their third heat wave of the summer.
Environment
Aug 9, 2023
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With Portugal in the grip of a heat wave, a wildfire broke out on 5 August south of Odemira in the Alentejo region in southern Portugal. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission, shows the fire ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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Wildfires whipped by hurricane winds triggered evacuations in parts of Hawaii early Wednesday with some residents forced into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames, officials said.
Environment
Aug 9, 2023
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Hundreds of firefighters were on Tuesday battling a wildfire that has burned for four days in Portugal, which, like neighboring Spain, is sweltering in a heat wave that has triggered widespread weather alerts.
Environment
Aug 8, 2023
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