A map updated daily by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centreshowshow widespread the 2023 wildfires have become. Eastern provinces like Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia have been hit particularly hard this year by large and at times uncontrollable blazes. Officials on Wednesday reported 374 active...
Smoke from the wildfiresraging in Canadahave affected parts of the U.S. and satellite images from NASA show the smoke has even traveled across the Atlantic to Europe. Here is the expected forecast for the smoke. For several days, parts of the Midwest and Northeast have been seeing unhealthy ...
Wildfires mediate carbon transfer from land to lakes across boreal and temperate regions Mathilde Bélair Ian M. McCullough Jean-François Lapierre Communications Earth & Environment(2025) Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001 ...
-Wildfires: Canada has a lot of wildfires, especially in Western Canada. Over 590,000 hectares of land were burned in the Fort McMurray wildfires in 2016, causing more than $9 billion in damages and displacing over 88,000 people. -Flooding is a common occurrence in Canada, especially in ...
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 o
As wildfires become more frequent, they accelerate permafrost thaw, and in turn, thawing permafrost contributes to conditions that promote further fire95. Drier soils and the increased likelihood of peat burning create a feedback loop that exacerbates drought and enhances vulnerability to root pathogens...
We make recommendations for future priorities based on factors including continued expansion of the oil and gas industries, climate change resulting in increased frequency of wildfires, and land use. 2. General source categories of PACs to aquatic and terrestrial environments in Canada Berthiaume et ...
The six large wildfires in this study ranged in size from 14 000 to 700 000 ha. The soils in these regions are mostly classified as Typic Mesisols (32 sites), Orthic Gleysols (16 sites), or Orthic Grey Luvisols (8 sites) (Soil Landscapes of Canada map v.3.2). The sampled...
Van Wagner CE (1977) A method of computing fine fuel moisture content throughout the diurnal cycle, Environment Canada, Canadian Forestry Service, Petawawa Forest Experiment Station, Chalk River, Ontario. Information Report PS-X-69 Google Scholar Van Wagner CE (1987) Development and structure of...
Here's something surprising from Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That. While USA wildfires are running higher the last couple of years, according to Canada’s National Forestry Database, the number of forest fires in Canada has been at the lowest