Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But a study published in the journal Ecology Letters reminds us that wildfires are also ...
Ecology
Apr 13, 2023
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Dry vegetation, record temperatures and powerful winds: this "perfect storm" of weather phenomena fueled the massive forest fires in western Canada's Alberta province this year, according to researchers.
Environment
May 10, 2023
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A deep orange-brown sun shined through hazy skies as smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across North America and beyond, choking millions of people and triggering severe air quality alerts.
Environment
Jun 30, 2023
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Research on the International Space Station is helping scientists to understand how fire spreads and behaves in different environments and learn how to prevent and extinguish fires in space.
Space Exploration
Dec 28, 2023
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Research led by Oregon State University shows that fires are more likely to burn their way into national forests than out of them.
Environment
Mar 29, 2022
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Scores of firefighters battled to contain two new wildfires in Greece on Monday, as winds fanned the blazes and forced several villages and neighbourhoods to be evacuated.
Environment
Aug 23, 2021
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A team of civil engineers, climate scientists and bioresource engineers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Canada has found that the number of people in the U.S. exposed to wildfires has doubled over the ...
Springtime brings native wildflowers to bloom in the Santa Monica Mountains, northwest of Los Angeles. These beauties provide food for insects, maintain healthy soil and filter water seeping into the ground—in addition ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2024
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Hundreds of Greek firefighters battled a forest fire near Athens for a third day on Saturday, but brought the main front of the blaze under control as weather conditions improved.
Environment
May 22, 2021
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Southeast Australia's bushfire crisis culminated in the devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020 that burnt nearly 25 million hectares of bush.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2022
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