"Canada's hottest summer in 76 years fuelled the country's most destructive wildfire season on record in 2023, when almost seven times more land than the annual average was burnt," reads the report. "The fires' scale and impacts highlighted the need to...
Wildfires can be normal and healthy parts of an ecosystem, but today's fires can burn into unnatural infernos, producing unhealthy smoke that adversely impacts people's health hundreds of miles away. Different regions, at different times of year, will have a variety of influences stoking flames...
management in Canada is mostly focused on wildfire suppression, humans are responsible for about half of wildfire ignitions23. The increasing area burned is associated with an increase in large wildfire size and the number of lightning-caused fires, despite a decrease in human ignitions. In many...
This is a separate wildfire than the fires that caused hazy skies for us last week. Last week, thePhiladelphia region saw hazy sunsets due to smoke that drifted down from wildfires in Alberta, Canada, over 2,000 miles away. That smoke was carried high in the atmosphe...
"There's a concern that the more frequent fires could really limit the ability of the forest to take up carbon," said Byrne, a carbon cycle scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The study says extreme hot and dry conditions helped drive wildfires tha...
was tough to gauge, said Vancouver Fire Chief Karen Fry. They didn’t have the data categorized correctly, but they knew fires were up, fueled by a trend towards inhalation and torches — veritable fire starters — to consume opioids. A small correlation was found between fires and overdoses...
(2024) to use pixel-level estimates of AGB increment based on long-term data to project to a 2023 AGB expectation. 3.2. Tracking Intra- and inter-year change Fires in Canada's forested ecozones were monitored in near-real time using the Tracking Intra- and Inter-year Change (TIIC) ...
Jasper National Park’s Monster Wildfires and Their Impact on Banff National Park The forest fires at Jasper National Park have made headlines worldwide; it was a top story on BBC. Malik Merchant visited Banff National Park and captured scenes of smoke from Jasper in the atmosphere in Banff’...
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) June 8, 2023 By the numbers: There have been more than 2,200 wildfires in Canada so far this year, according to NOAA, putting it on track to have “the worst wildfire season on record.” The fires have burned an area larger than the state of ...
Investigating the impact of forest fires in Alaska/western Canada on the convective system over the Eastern U.S. using a newly developed modeling frameworkA unified regional-global aerosol-climate modeling framework is developed to improve the aerosol-cloud interactions in regional climate simulations. ...