As of its most recent update, the interagency fire center has recorded 4,241 wildfires since the beginning of 2023. The fires have scorched at least 11 million hectares — or over 27.1 million acres — of land across Canada this year. In June, the acreage burned this year surpassed the am...
The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades1. Here, we quantify the carbon emissions from these fires from May to September 2023 on the basis of inverse modelling of sate...
Building on the efforts of previous studies, our results consider a particularly wide range of soils, vegetation, and burn severities, and we identify specific fire-responsive microbial taxa and suggest that accounting for burn severity improves our understanding of microbial response to fires....
these fires exhibited sizes, fire weather, and behaviour consistent with historical fires; there were simply far more of them in 2023. Thirteen fires reported in early May were ignited by lightning and reached final sizes ≥10 000 ha, revealing a previously unrecognized threat. Historically, large...
The extent to which North American boreal peatland fires affect global C and climate systems by re-introducing C sequestered over several millennia to the atmosphere, and the response of peatland C emissions to climatic warming, remains unclear. Because of the complexity of the combustion of organic...
have it that the market size of the Restaurants & Takeaway Food Industry has been growing steadily at an average rate of 1.5% annually, from 2018 up to the present. Latest count as of early 2023 is that there are 40,116 restaurants and takeaway food businesses operating in urban Dutch ...
One was lost fighting fires, one was considered irreparably damaged in a 1962 storm, and the last two of the named JRMs, Hawaii Mars and Philippine Mars, served as giant firefighters from the mid-1960s well into the 21st Century. They were based on Sproat Lake at Port Alberni located ...
A report on the extortion attacks from the incident response firmMandiantnotes that Snowflake victim companies were privately approached by the hackers, who demanded a ransom in exchange for a promise not to sell or leak the stolen data. All told, more than 160 Snowflake customers were relieved...
"In response to Russia's illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, Canada has imposed hard-hitting sanctions against the Russian regime and those who enable it," the statement said. Aleksandra Melnichenko claims in her application that she's a European citizen with "no...
The monthly CDM categories were used as the response variable in this study. The CDM measures drought on an ordinal scale from no drought (ND) to abnormally dry (D0), moderate drought (D1), severe drought (D2), extreme drought (D3), and exceptional drought (D4). These drought classes...