Tag: Wildfire
Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it’s more widespread than...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on...
Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic...
Steven C. Beda, University of Oregon
What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered...
Western wildfires are spinning off tornadoes – here’s how fires create...
Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara and Leila Carvalho, University of California, Santa Barbara
It might sound like a bad movie, but extreme wildfires...
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...
Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there...
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Once again, the summer of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere has brought us an epidemic of major...
California fire damage to homes is less ‘random’ than it seems
Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
In the midst of the many wildfire emergencies that have faced California this year,...
Don’t blame California wildfires on a ‘perfect storm’ of weather events
Gregory L Simon, University of Colorado Denver
Late evening on Oct. 8, a series of fires ignited in Northern California’s famous Wine Country region. The...
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...
