1/209 Orlando, Florida, is one of the most visited places in the United States, a fact that has spurred its development during the past three decades. The next six images show just how much the city has expanded. This image is from January 1982. (NASA) ...
Wildfires Rampage In California As Heatwave Surges Photo Source:AP Images/Ring H.W. Chiu Thursday, September 8, 2022 – Amid the possibilities of heavy rain and flash floods in some parts of southern California, large wildfires continue to burn across the western coast of California. The blaze ...
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...
The most important effects are increases of global temperatures, variations in the lifecycles of plants and animals, changes in the species distribution, loss of biodiversity, drought, wildfires, and others (Amedie, 2013). The geographic distribution pattern of species depends on many environmental ...
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....
The global warming process may be even more intense than originally forecast unless deforestation can be halted, especially in the tropical regions. This warning has been published in Nature Communications by an international group of scientists. "If we
Most wildfires in recent historic time have been ignited by human activity (Adams, 2013; Balch et al., 2017; Keeley & Syphard, 2018), but climate and weather control wildfire behavior and spread, determining whether ignitions grow into large fires (Abatzoglou et al., 2018). Prevalence of...
(ECCC), tasked with monitoring all active wildfires in Canada on a daily basis. WildFireSat’s scientific objective supports research on the behavior of wildfires and the emission of carbon, aerosols, and other particles produced by wildfires. WildFireSat will obtain key daily observations of ...
Wildfire In Siberia:On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at least 21 people have died in wildfires in Russia's Ural Mountains, which have been blamed on dry summers and high temperatures. Most of the fatalities happened in Yuldus, a hamlet in Kurgan province on the border between the Urals and Si...
[62,63,64,65,66] and references therein) to achieve a better identification and quantification either of sources showing a sub-daily modulation (e.g., traffic or wood burning for domestic heating) and/or impacting for a limited time slot (e.g., Saharan dust/wildfires advection events, ...