When a recent study implicated forest fires set by early Māori in a hemisphere-wide rise in emissions, it ignited controversy.
Archaeology
Dec 22, 2022
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Irina Panyushkina grew up in Siberia, near the Arctic Circle. She was raised on stories of explorers trudging through seas of ice to reach the North Pole.
Environment
Jan 14, 2022
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When ferocious wildfires tore through California's prized giant sequoia forests, they killed towering trees that have lived there for thousands of years—and perhaps changed the nature of the groves forever.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2023
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As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental data generated by scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and ...
Archaeology
May 17, 2022
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Wildfires blazing across Chile have killed at least 51 people, leaving bodies in the street and homes gutted, with flames continuing to spread on Sunday and the toll expected to rise.
Environment
Feb 4, 2024
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Early humans in Europe were making and controlling fire at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found.
Archaeology
May 18, 2023
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Wildfires are some of the most destructive natural disasters in the country, threatening lives, destroying homes and infrastructure, and creating air pollution. In order to properly forecast and manage wildfires, managers ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2023
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High-severity wildfire is increasing in Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade forests and has been burning at unprecedented rates compared to the years before Euro-American settlement, according to a study from the Safford Lab ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2023
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A Brazilian study shows that the number of fires detected in the entire Amazon region between 2003 and 2020 was influenced more by uncontrolled human use of fire than by drought. According to the researchers, burning of vegetation ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Israel and one in Canada has found evidence of fire use by early hominins (during the Lower Paleolithic) at an ancient camp site in Israel. In their paper published ...
