(NEW YORK) — Wildfires burning in Canada have prompted hazardous air pollution conditions in the U.S. this week, as smoke moves South and lingers over much of the Northeast. While wildfires in California and other western states have prompted air quality warnings in the past, seeing them o...
Smoke frommore than 100 wildfiresburning across Canada has been rolling into North American cities far from the flames. New York City and Detroit were both listed among the fivemost polluted cities in the worldbecause of the fires o...
There are other factors at play as well. For instance, Canada’s forests store a great deal of carbon. When wildfires hit they can also get worse at sequestering it if, for example, multiple fires hit the same space year over year, killing young trees before they ...
The Hawaii disaster came soon after wildfires drove tourists to flee their hotels in Greece and major cities were blanketed in smoke from blazes in Canada, where fires have engulfed parts of nearly all 13 provinces and territories this year. Wildfires areincreasing in frequency and severityacross ...
Intense smoke blanketed the northeastern United States for a second day Wednesday, turning the air a yellowish gray and prompting warnings for people to stay inside and keep windows closed. The smoke is flowing from dozens of wildfires burning in several
With a thick haze lingering above the heads of millions of Americans as Canada's wildfires continue to rage, there has been a whirlwind of information about the severity of the situation. But when officials and forecasters classify your city's air as "unhealthy" or "hazardous," what does th...
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Since 2003, wildfires have been burning bigger,more oftenand inincreasingly unpredictable ways. Projected increases in area burned suggest the current state ofwildfire management in Canada will be unable to cope with increasing wildfire activity. Restricting people from going into the backcountry, as ...
“lightning siege” over the past ten days has resulted in over 13,000 lightning strikes, many of which were from high-based thunderstorms that did not provide much rain to the surface (rain evaporated on the way down!).How unusual was this large number of lightning strikes in mid-August?
How do forest invertebrates respond to different types of disturbance events (e.g., catastrophic wildfires versus Indigenous cultural burning practices) and what are the underlying mechanisms behind these responses (Erenler et al. 2020; Filazzola et al. 2021)? iv. What are the metapopulation and...