A string of fierce fires broke out in Chile in the austral summer 2023, just six years after the record-breaking 2017 fire season. Favored by extreme weather conditions, fire activity has dramatically risen in recent years in this Andean country. A total of 1.7 million ha. burned during the...
Australia's New South Wales State Calls End to Brutal Fire Season More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Personnel from Fire and Rescue NSW work as a bushfire approaches a home in Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo MELBOURNE (Reuters) - ...
Australia is confronted with a major wildfire danger on a yearly basis. In light of the increasing frequency of these fires, it becomes imperative to prioritize the improvement of the nation’s forest fire risk management plan. Therefore, the establishment of a resilient and dependable framework, ...
The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, management, and climate
Can the Hawks really rebound from a three-win season? They've added a potentially elite import in Gary Clark, and good luck guarding the big, rangy lineup they can throw at you. A top tier of teams may emerge from the pack, but it feels like we should always expect compet...
(Copes-Gerbitz et al.2022b). The 2023 fire season broke the record for area burned in both BC and Canada, with the full scope of impacts continuing to emerge. With climate change, fire seasons of this magnitude are expected to worsen and increasingly overwhelm fire suppression efforts (...
Both fire and extreme seasonal changes in hydrology interact to maintain the treeless nature of FSGs, on both a broader landscape and finer plant community level. In regions of south-central Florida with poorly-drained, flat, grassy terrain, early lightning season-ignited wildfires spread across va...
Forest fires represent a severe threat to Mediterranean ecosystems and are considered one of the major environmental and socioeconomic problems of the region. The project Plantando cara al fuego (PCF, Spain) is designed to transfer knowledge and to improve the training of new generations in forest...
(2023) conducted the first landscape-scale assessment involving empirical fire severity data in relation to PB effectiveness in shrublands. The authors also found that treated areas in temperate shrublands in southeastern Australia experienced lower wildfire severity than those areas that were not ...
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