New sensing platform deployed at controlled burn site, could help prevent forest fires
Multichannel sensing could help in emergencies.
Environment
Jul 26, 2022
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Image: Greece battles wildfires on Lesbos island
Hundreds of residents and tourists have been evacuated from the east Aegean island of Lesbos (also known as Lesvos), Greece, after a wildfire broke out on the morning of 23 July. The fire, which has been raging near the coastal ...
Environment
Jul 26, 2022
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Preventative fires credited with saving Yosemite sequoias
A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the undergrowth beneath the towering trees, a forest ecologist who toured the ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2022
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US review traces massive New Mexico fire to planned burns
Two fires that merged to create the largest wildfire in New Mexico history have both been traced to planned burns set by U.S. forest managers as preventative measures, federal investigators announced Friday.
Environment
May 28, 2022
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Fighting fire with fire: Controlled burns remain essential as US wildfires intensify
In 2015, the Lake Fire burned 31,000 acres in this popular hiking forest northeast of Los Angeles. It destroyed four buildings, came perilously close to the resort town of Big Bear Lake and took more than 1,900 firefighters ...
Environment
May 23, 2022
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Research recommends extending California's prescribed burning season
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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California's 2020 wildfire season: Report summarizes record-breaking fire year and calls for shift in strategy
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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How the Indigenous practice of 'good fire' can help our forests thrive
In the past several years, California has endured the most extreme fires in its recorded history.
Ecology
Apr 7, 2022
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Six wildfire terms to understand, from red flag warning to 100% containment
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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Understanding hot spot conditions reached in implosion experiments
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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