In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. Too many did not make it out of their beds, let alone their homes. In our always-on, ...
As fires in the Amazon continue to blaze through Brazil, the smoke is affecting the respiratory health of the people living there. 6 years ago How did the Brazilian wildfires become so devastating? The number of wildfires in the country has risen more than 84% from last year, according to ...
Current remote sensing monitoring approaches can be divided into two main categories: (1) the detection of degradation (or proxies) which could form part of an early warning system [e.g., 49, 72, 74], and (2) quantification of loss (or gain) in AGB [e.g., 63, 65, 84], which ...
Zumbrunnen et al., 2012), we take the view that climate change combined with changes in forest management and increasing recreational activities will alter the current fire regime towards a more fire prone one with a higher number of ignitions and more extreme forest fires, also in the Norther...
As a result, forest degradation from logging and fire may have been included in historic deforestation estimates, especially in years with extensive damages from understory forest fires [48]. Incomplete information on forest degradation and secondary forest dynamics also contributes to source data ...
Globally, forests cover nearly one third of the land area and they contain over 80% of terrestrial biodiversity. Both the extent and quality of forest habitat continue to decrease and the associated loss of biodiversity jeopardizes forest ecosystem funct
Current International Perspectives on Wildland Fires, Mankind and the Environment. pp. 121–144. Edited by B Leblon and ME Alexander. Nova Science Publishers Inc, Hauppauge, NY Google Scholar Anderson HE (1968) Sundance Fire: an analysis of fire phenomena. USDA Forest Service, Intermountain ...
A.Forest fires can be very difficult to put out or control.B.Billions of dollars are spent every year fighting fires in some countries.C.Sometimes firefighters will use airplanes to drop water on fires from the air.D.Forest fires are a type of wildfire.E.A strong wind can help a fire ...
predict changes in the PHRR, which serves as an index of fire hazard by defining the combustibility (rate of combustion) of the vegetation, thus offering a distribution of hazard critical for firefighting operations planning, including the distribution of firefighting resources and local alerts. Conve...
interconnected infrastructures;climate change;forest fires;resilience;electricity;transportation 1. Introduction It is presently understood that climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan, serviceability, or even devastate critical infrastructures (CI), such as the energy, ...