Tag: wildfires
Human-caused climate change severely exposes the US national parks
Patrick Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
Human-caused climate change is disrupting ecosystems and people’s lives around the world. It is melting glaciers, increasing wildfires, and...
Many native animals and birds thrive in burned forests, research shows
Derek E. Lee, Pennsylvania State University
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is blaming this summer’s large-scale wildfires on environmentalists, who he contends oppose “active management” in...
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...
A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires
Michael Kodas, University of Colorado
Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California,...
A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more...
Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon
Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six...
Spiraling wildfire fighting costs are largely beyond the Forest Service’s control
Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon
Just six months after the devastating Thomas Fire – the largest blaze in California’s history – was fully contained, the...
All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them...
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
So far, the 2018 fire season has produced a handful of big fires in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado;...
How your social network could save you from a disaster
Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University and Danaë Metaxa, Stanford University
In early November 2017, Brooks Fisher’s neighbor in Sonoma, California, pounded on his door at...
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...
