Indonesia has intensified efforts to fight wildfires with cloud seeding and water bombing as thousands of people nationwide battle to breathe through smoke and haze, officials said Friday.
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Aug 28, 2026
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Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra.
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Aug 26, 2026
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In a new study in Environmental Research: Ecology, I analyzed how fires were able to burn into communities and how fire-resistant land uses could be combined with fuel treatments to reduce fires burning into communities. ...
Canada's 2023 wildfire season burned more than 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres), an area larger than Greece. As fires like these grow more frequent and unpredictable, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers has taken ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2026
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Wildfire smoke is usually discussed as an airborne pollutant and a threat to human health. But when smoke and rain coincide, nutrients released by burned landscapes rain back down. A new study finds that smoke-rain events ...
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Aug 25, 2026
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As wildfire smoke plumes travel thousands of miles, sunlight and atmospheric chemistry bleach their color, strip away their campfire aroma and add them to the mix of urban smog.
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Aug 25, 2026
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Tens of thousands of people looked set to spend another night away from home Monday as a wind-driven fire bore down on the western U.S. city of Reno.
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Aug 25, 2026
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Wildfires that have swept across Britain's upland moors and lowland heaths in unprecedented tinder-dry conditions have left behind expanses of smoking, blackened vegetation.
Environment
Aug 21, 2026
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Jennifer Bhatnagar spent the summer of 2023 traversing barren hillsides blackened by wildfire in northern California. She walked through devastated properties, examined the hot soil beneath her feet, collected samples and ...
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Aug 21, 2026
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Belgium's largest wildfire in a century was brought "under control" Thursday after a seven-day fight involving hundreds of firefighters in the boggy terrain of the High Fens nature reserve.
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Aug 20, 2026
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