Very bad. To be specific, Canada wildfires have burned over 10 mn hectares this year. And it’s not just the loss of forests or the poisonous air people have to breathe. There is also the tragedy of lost homes and lives. Climate change damage is not limited to Canada, obviously. It’...
With files from Dennis Mersereau, a digital journalist at The Weather Network. Thumbnail was created by Cheryl Santa Maria. It contains images courtesy of Brett (wildfires), Colleen (flooding) and David Hart (tornado). The ha...
above-threshold area ratios all dropped sharply. At the same time in Vancouver, due to the impact of wildfires, the above-threshold area ratio did not decrease even during the lockdown period. With the start of the first-stage reopening in Toronto, the areas above different NO2threshold ...
The world feels like it’s being set alight. Wildfires in Canada and Europe, floods in China, and a never-ending stream of record-breaking heat waves have constantly dominated newspaper headlines. The feeling that time is quickly running out is very real. But that feeling is a barrier to ...
Thumbnail was created by Cheryl Santa Maria. It contains images courtesy of Brett (wildfires), Colleen (flooding) and David Hart (tornado). The hail image used in the header is a stock photo for illustration purposes only...
Thumbnail was created by Cheryl Santa Maria. It contains images courtesy of Brett (wildfires), Colleen (flooding) and David Hart (tornado). The hail image used in the header is a stock photo for illustration purposes only. Follow Nathan Howes onthe X platform,...
Wildfires play a crucial role in the transformation of forest ecosystems and exert a significant influence on the global climate over geological timescales. Recent shifts in climate patterns and intensified human–forest interactions have led to an increase in the incidence of wildfires. These fires ar...
Canada is warming two-fold faster than the global average [3], which is expected to amplify adverse health impacts via multidimensional exposure pathways, including changing weather patterns leading to extreme temperatures, drought, floods, and wildfires [3,4,5]. Likewise, there is a well-...
Of these intersected wildfires, nine were less than five years old at the time of over-flight in 2010 and were discarded because we cannot discriminate between shrubs and young trees at this early stage [43]. For each intersected fire, we had data on the years since fire (YSF), spatial...