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) ...
Changes in vegetation over the last several decades have been inferred from comparison of satellite observations of surface reflectance of near-infrared light, which is reflected by vegetation, and red light, which is absorbed by vegetation. This difference is known as the normalized difference ...
was burned to ashes. Unlike other wildfires, the Palisades Fire destroyed entire neighborhoods and communities. The people fled in panic on short notice and left their belongings behind, but most got out alive. The fire is a sign of the coming Second Advent and the Baptism of Fire that will...
There’s the initial shock and chaos in a collective disaster like the deadly and destructive California wildfires. Middle East latest: Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza as talks on ceasefire resume President Donald Trump has suggested that displaced Palestinians be permanently resettled outside Gaz...
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...
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 ...
(IMPROVE) site near Rocky Mountain National Park, two chemiluminescence monitors were deployed side by side to provide the reactive nitrogen gas concentration by difference for 1 year during the Rocky Mountain Atmospheric Nitrogen and Sulfur study [108]. Building upon this effort, a prototype of ...
Lightning is the main precursor of natural wildfires in the Continental United States (CONUS), while human-caused fires represent 80% of the total burned area [1]. Lightning dominated as the cause of ignition in Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida (the areas studied in this work) in spring an...
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