Last week, Russia extended an earlier ban on wheat exports after heat, drought and wildfires destroyed about a third of its wheat crop. The ban was placed to make sure Russians have enough wheat. The first ban caused worldwide wheat prices to climb last year by almost...
Libonati R, Geirinhas JL, Silva PS, Russo A, Rodrigues JA, Belém LBC, Nogueira J, Roque FO, DaCamara CC, Nunes AMB, Marengo JA, Trigo RM (2022) Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal. Environ Res Lett 17:015005. http...
Other studies explore risk assessment in UK road tunnels, ignition frequencies of structural fires in Australia, building resistance to wildfires in Portugal, fire spread in informal settlements, fire risk assessment in the historic city center of Aveiro, Portugal, and estimating the suppr...
Wildfire In Chile: On Sunday, February 5, 2023, several wildfires have been reported blazing over central Chile in recent days, killing at least 23 people, damaging 800 houses, and triggering the declaration of an emergency in three areas. The flames have wounded 66 people, while over 1,500...
World University of Design (WUD) is India's first and only University dedicated to education in the creative domain. GGJ is an international platform for inclusive learning where people from all around the world contribute to the 17 global goals for sustainable development of UNDP. ...
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire Canada 2,400 houses lost and 6 billion CND in damages [12],[13] 2016 Wildfires Portugal 4 people killed and more than 1,000 evacuated [15], 2015 Wildfires Russia 33 people killed and 1,300 houses burned [16] 2015 South Australia fires Australia 2 lives lost ...
The Circumpolar Current is a current that entirely surrounds Antarctica largely uninterrupted, and transports water around the continent in a clockwise direction. It is the largest ocean current in the world by average water transport (sverdrups), and provides habitat for a rich diversity of marine...
Something unfamiliar to many Californians—an intense thunderstorm with widespread lightning strikes—spawned the all-too-familiar wildfires that have so far burned more than 1 million acres across the state's north. That contrast may foreshadow a future
In California, prison labour—increasingly managed by private companies—is used to fight wildfires. Meanwhile, animals and other non-human life trying to escape scorched landscapes change their relationships with humans as was the case during theAustralian infernothat began in September 2019. ...
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...