Threats to Western Canadian oil output recede as wildfires under control, rail strike delayedWestern Canadian oil, NGLs and natural gas producers continued May 16 to monitor the situation as the the dual threats
Trump’s executive order argues that loosening restrictions on logging will reduce the risk of wildfires and improve wildlife habitats. However, environmental experts dispute this claim, emphasizing that intact forests help regulate climate conditions and prevent catastrophic fires. As the administration pus...
Contemporary wildfires are the culmination of a century of altered human–forest–wildfire relationships, exacerbated by climate change. Transformative change is urgently needed for the ecosystems and communities to be resilient to wildfire. We present six interrelated strategies needed to amplify the pace...
Wildfires are an integral part of forest ecosystems and play a crucial role in the forest carbon cycle. They regulate forests by facilitating forest succession and regeneration, and maintaining plant and animal biodiversity95,100. While humans and lightning strikes initiate roughly equal numbers of fir...
prompting officials to raise the wildfire risk to extreme in many areas and to ban all outdoor burning, including campfires and even tiki torches. But hundreds of dry lightning strikes over the past two days led to the sparking of 138 (!!) new wildfires yesterday. Several of these fires ar...
(tabular data format). Data conversions usually consume significant amount of computation time and require extra efforts in data preparation. Using functions provided by therasterpackage (Hijmans2014), the three raster-basedcffdrsfunctions are not only easy to use, but outputs are also easy to ...
Determining the effects of fire on soil microbial communities across a wide range of sites and assessing the utility of different burn severity metrics could underpin efforts to predict and characterize the effects of wildfires and changing wildfire regimes on soil microbes in boreal upland and ...
Wildfire monitoring is also an essential component of Canada’s efforts to track and predict smoke dispersion from active wildfires. In recent years, wildfire smoke has been the dominant cause of poor air quality for large portions of Canada [24]. The impacts of smoke on communities can necessit...
Introduction: Wildfires impact large populations worldwide with increasing frequency and severity. In Canada, the fire season has affected more areas this year with potential implications for individuals’ well-being and quality of life (QoL). Objective:
A key part of staying safe is being informed, and that includes learning the lingo associated with wildfires.