Tag: fire
Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape
Wyatt Oswald, Emerson College; David R. Foster, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Chilton, Binghamton University, State University of New York
An interpretive sign stands at the...
Making life-or-death decisions is very hard – here’s how we’ve taught...
Laurence Alison, University of Liverpool and Neil Shortland, University of Massachusetts Lowell
When faced with a rapidly advancing fire threatening a community, it can be...
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square...
Curious Kids: How does the stuff in a fire extinguisher stop...
Joseph Lanzafame, Rochester Institute of Technology
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
Notre Dame has shaped the intellectual life of Paris for eight...
Emily E. Graham, Oklahoma State University
The burning wreckage of the 12th-century Notre-Dame de Paris led to an immediate outpouring of grief over the damage...
In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed...
Paul W. Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
In a city graced with remarkable architecture, the cathedral of Notre Dame may be Paris’ most striking...
How fierce fall and winter winds help fuel California fires
Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara
It doesn’t take long in California...
From Smokey Bear to climate change: the future of wildland fire...
John Bailey, Oregon State University
Current conditions in the West demonstrate that our US fire management system is struggling and approaching a state of crisis....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
