North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile: On Sunday, February 19, 2023, South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast, after Pyongyang threatened a harsh response to upcoming US-South Korean military maneuvers. North Korea ...
Causes of wildland fires, associated socio-economic impacts and challenges with policing, in Chakari resettlement area, Kadoma, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is among the most fire prone countries in Africa south of the Sahara. Annually over 1 million hectares of land are destroyed by wildland fires dur... ...
Italy Experiencing Worst Flood In 100 Years:On Thursday, May 18, 2023, floods in northern Emilia-Romagna have taken the lives of 13 people. As a result of the disaster, which has caused 23 rivers to burst their banks and 280 landslides to engulf 41 cities and towns, an estimated 20,000...
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Northern Forests Increasingly Getting Burned A look at the history of forest fires and drought in Canada and Alaska finds three striking trends emerging over forty years. Boreal Tree Growth Slows as Climate Warms It appears that climatic warming in boreal forests has pushed many trees beyond the ...
The relative influence of climate versus land use on fires and their impacts, however, remains unclear, particularly given the substantial geographical variability in fire-prone places like California. We developed a modeling framework to compare the importance of climatic and human variables for ...
conditions where there’s a high risk electric infrastructure could start or contribute to a wildfire. Fires started by power lines and electrical equipment accounted for more than 59% of the total acres burned in California wildfires during the summers of 2017 and 2019, according to Stasiewicz....
Figure 2 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Map of the western continental United States, indicating major rivers, mountain ranges, and other place names mentioned in the text. The Cascade Range extends from Northern California to just north of the U.S.-Canadian border. The Rocky Mountains comprise...
(Harlan and Ruddell2011; Kan et al.2012), especially in poor communities (Schlosberg and Colins2014; Hallegatte and Rozenberg2017), widespread and/or frequent droughts linked to extensive fires (Amiro et al.2001; Littell et al.2016), diminished resources for drinking water and irrigation (...
The western North America population of Harlequin Ducks winters along the coast from northern California to British Columbia, southeastern and south-central Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands (Robertson and Goudie 1999). Harlequin Ducks are present throughout the year in Prince William Sound (PWS), ...