Forest fire, uncontrolled fire occurring in vegetation more than 1.8 meters (6 feet) in height. While a forest fire is often seen as harmful, a number of forests are specifically fire-adapted, meaning the plants and animals are enhanced by or dependent o
Even environment activists in Alberta, Canada blame the tar sand industry for the rapid depredation of Canada’s boreal forests. The year 2015 saw Republican legislators attempting to force the issue by approving a bill that would allow the Keystone XL’s proposed project to move ahead. ...
The destructionof the world's forests plays a part too. As a resut, a hotter oceancauses stronger winds. Atlantic hurricanes are 40% stronger nowthan they were 30 years ago.Landslides and earthquakes are even more dangerous now than inthe past because around half of the world's population ...
and forest fires have become increasingly common.There have been terrible floods in Asia,Africa,America andOceania.Storms have been getting worse everywhere too,withmore hurricanes hitting the US and Central America.Reducedrainfall has affected Africa for years,with severe droughts inSomalia and Kenya ...
for the rainforest, and this was shown to be absolutely true in 2005, when the rainforest had its worst drought in a century. This resulted in numerous forest fires, burning down the natural environment for animals, birds and insects, and in turn destroying large portions of the forests. ...
Fossil records show that our amazingly successful ancestor, Homo erectus, began using and maintaining fires about 1.5 million years ago, It is hard to imagine, as amazingly smart as chimpanzees are, any situation under which they could not just understand the creation and use of fire (if for ...
To the north and east of the lowland is the geologically ancient Canadian Shield, an area of rocks, forests, and rivers. It covers about three-fifths of the province and is drained by the Nelson and Churchill rivers into Hudson Bay. The Hudson Bay Lowland extends roughly 100 miles (160 km...
In 1971, astronaut Stuart Roosa took 500 seeds aboard Apollo 14 as part of his personal luggage. In his earlier life, Roosa had been a smoke jumper, someone who parachutes into burning forests to fight fires (people with the balls of astronauts had to find something to do before space trav...
Figure 1: Total wildfire acreage burned by year in the United States, 1926 to 2019. Data from https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html Graph by meteorologist Anthony Watts Globally, the data on wildfires are just as clear. In his bookFalse Alarm, Bjorn Lomborg observes...
This article contains "true" facts about High Overlord Varok Saurfang. They started at an unknown point in time, possibly after the Mind Controlled [Execute] bug. This only increased after he revealed his greatness leading the Might of Kalim