Quebec saw nearly 17,400 square miles burned in 2023 wildfires, a record for area burned in the province. A study last year by researchers with the Canadian Forest Service; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Imperial College in London, United Kingdom; the University ...
In looking towards the future, climate change impacts are expected to cause wildfires that will be progressively worse. This paper explores the Fort McMurray wildfire through the lens of the four pillars of emergency management: response, recovery, mitigation, and preparedness. By exploring aspects ...
"These are really, really small particles," explains Sumil Thakrar, environmental scientist at the University of Minnesota. Wildfires spew these particles out and their small size allows them to travel far — and deep. "When you breathe them in,...
Late spring and early summer blazes in Canada, Alaska and eastern Russia add to carbon emissions The northern hemisphere has had a large number of intense wildfires in the first half of summer, carrying vast amounts of smoke across Eurasia … Continue reading → Posted in Air Quality, Asia, ...
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2023, for instance, was the worst year on record for wildfires in Canada, with the total area burned amounting to 18.5 million hectares – two and a half times the previous record, which was set in 1995. That’s in addition to multiple floods and storms, all of which have led to sever...
agility. “The wildfires in Atlantic Canada brought this to light,” says Barrack. “Employees throughout the region wanted to help their friends and neighbours and very quickly put teams together,” she says. “We were able to offer rapid, on-the-ground support for disaster ...
M.V.K. Sivakumar of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in just over a decade as all continents see more weather-related disasters like heat waves, floods, landslides and wildfires. "Should we worry about land being degraded? Yes," Sivakumar, who...
Identifying disconnects between restoration research and practice and ensuring that the research that is conducted has the potential to impact practice remain high priority topics for ecological restoration. Acknowledgements Thanks to the University of Waterloo Research Librarian Agnes Zientarska-Kayko for ...