Tag: wildfires
‘Managed retreat’ from climate disasters can reinvent cities so they’re better...
A.R. Siders, University of Delaware and Katharine Mach, University of Miami
June’s record-breaking heat wave left more than 40...
Western fires are burning higher in the mountains at unprecedented rates...
Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, McGill University
As extreme fires transform Alaska’s boreal forest, deciduous trees put a...
forest burns
Jill Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Heather Dawn Alexander, Auburn University; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona...
Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is...
Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University
Protecting forests is an essential strategy in the fight...
Conservation Ecology National parks California Land management Archives Wildfires
Emily Lin, University of California, Merced
Editor’s note: As wildfires came dangerously close to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in September 2020, the curator...
Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but...
Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University
Peatlands are a type of wetland where dead plant material doesn’t fully decompose because it’s too soggy. In these ecosystems,...
We’ll see more fire seasons like 2020 – here’s a strategy...
Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder
As of late fall, wildfires are still smoldering under snowfall in Colorado. I am hoping that the cold and...
Why gender reveals have spiraled out of control
Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago
Over Labor Day weekend, two expectant parents didn’t get the viral hit they had hoped for.
During a gender reveal party...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
