Euro-American settlement and 20th-century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel accumulation and uncharacteristically severe wildfires in some areas and diminished flammability resulting from shifts to more fire-sensitive forest...
Consider Paul Krugman writing breathlessly in The New York Times about the “rising incidence of extreme events.” He claims that global warming caused the current drought in America’s Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis(危机)。
The objective of this Special Issue was to present the main advances in Forestry Science for Latin-America in the context of changing governance and forest livelihoods for people. The fifteen articles emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the forest management and conservation, and that multiple va...
When we’re faced with record-breaking temperatures, worsening wildfires, more severe storms, and other devastating effects of climate change, feelings of anxiety and despair are normal. In Generation Dread, Britt Wray reminds us that our distress is, at its heart, a sign of our …Continue rea...
news website without seeing images of harrowing wildfires in Europe, Hawaii and Canada or the devastating typhoon in East Asia. As I sat sweltering on a Sardinian beach during heatwave Charon in late July, my thoughts echoed those from all over the globe, is the Earth now in a climate ...
The world weather events portend much for mankind. From earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados, floods, wildfires, drought to artic melting, we need to take account of our lives and how society should prepare and respond. In some states the number is one in five, but nationally nearly 1 in 7 Am...
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...
national meteorological services, and the private sector, with attendees drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Application areas were similarly broad, including renewable energy, hydrology, clouds, environmental health, pollution, wildfires, urbanisation, geodesy, and crop classification...
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operates more than 1,200 local news sites across the United States. CJR reported that a group of these sites would write again and again about favored political issues, repeating the same talking points, while completely ignoring major stories like hurricanes and wildfires affecting to local area....