Many of the wilderness areas that we treasure were historically shaped by fire. Yet today, many wilderness landscapes are caught in the wildfire paradox—widespread suppression and exclusion of burning over the last century ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2023
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Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.
Environment
Sep 27, 2023
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Melted remains of an old car tire. Heavily burned trees. A charred stump of an abandoned utility pole.
Environment
Sep 27, 2023
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Wildfires in California, exacerbated by human-driven climate change, are getting more severe. To better manage them, there's a growing need to know exactly what fuels the blazes after they ignite. In a study published in ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2023
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Although fire can kill some plants, many plants need fires to survive and flower. Entire habitats like tallgrass prairie depend on fires, which historically burned across thousands of acres of grasslands in North America ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2023
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Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters and fueling demand for new solutions. Enter artificial intelligence.
Earth Sciences
Sep 24, 2023
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People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the world, according to new research published Wednesday.
Environment
Sep 23, 2023
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The world's first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that more than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2023
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The Northern Hemisphere summer brought catastrophic fires and floods to many countries. Down south, the winter was the hottest ever recorded in Australia, fueled by record ocean temperatures.
Environment
Sep 18, 2023
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Koala populations have been decimated by bushfires in recent years—and researchers are forecasting that bushfires will threaten them and their habitat even more in coming decades.
Ecology
Sep 18, 2023
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