A ferris wheel is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Nov. 12, 2019. (Xinhua/Bai Xueqi) IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi said past experience suggests that such wildfires could only lead to "a very small increase of radioactive concentration in the air," and the IAEA...
VIENNA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Wildfires near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant do not pose a radioactive threat, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday. The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog said in a statement that it had been informed by Ukrainian authorities that the gamma...
Radioactive smoke? Russia wildfires rage near Chernobyl.(World)Greenpeace says Russia wildfires are spreading across six provinces that were heavily contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. One Russian official accused Greenpeace of 'panic- mongering.'Weir, Fred...
Thanks to near-record ocean temperatures and a shift to La Niña conditions, the US is expected to witness an extremely active hurricane season. Scientists at Colorado State University predict 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes, which is significantly higher than the historica...
as it headed into the night with four nominations and a boatload of buzz. by chris murphy politics harrowing media footage of california wildfires shows catastrophic toll the story is deeply personal for la-based reporters, who have put their lives on the line to cover the devastation in their...
(1) Background: Fire affects global agricultural and/or forest ecosystems with high biomass accumulation. However, the delineation of fire-hazardous areas based on satellite-derived active fire intensity is not well-studied. Therefore, examining the char
Some from wildfires [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], some from squid fishing squid [8,9,10], some from the flaring of excess natural gas [11,12]; however, the dominant signal in most nocturnal imagery is lights illuminating human settlements [13]. A fundamental question that motivated this work was...
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It was hypothesized that smoke from the wildfires reduced the amount of incoming solar radiation reaching the ground, which resulted in near‐surface cooling, while smoke aerosols resulted in warming aloft. As a result of increased inversion‐like conditions, smoke from wildfires was trapped within ...
VIENNA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Wildfires near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant do not pose a radioactive threat, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday. The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog said in a statement that it had been informed by Ukrainian authorities that the gamma...