Tag: wildfires
Global toll from landslides is heaviest in developing countries
A. Joshua West, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
This month’s tragic mudslides in Montecito, California are a reminder...
Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse
Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University
Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled...
Exposure to wildfire smoke: 5 questions answered
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Editor’s note: Wildfires once again are raging in California – this time in the Los Angeles area, where...
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,...
Why were California’s wine country fires so destructive?
Jon Keeley, US Geological Survey
As of late October more than a dozen wildfires north of San Francisco had killed more than 40 people, burned...
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...
California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
Max Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
We recently witnessed the wind-driven Tubbs fire blast its way through densely urbanized neighborhoods in Northern California, causing dozens...
Chasing the flame: Does media coverage of wildfires probe deeply enough?
Adrianne Kroepsch, Colorado School of Mines
It is the dry season in western states, which means that large swaths of land are burning or smoldering...
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...
